NJ wildfire: Weber Fire (4/11/10)

The Weber fire in Middlesex County (NJFFS Division B Section 10), NJ burned at least 30 acres on Sunday afternoon, April 10 before being brought under control at about 18:30 hours that same evening. See this thread from the wildland fire hotlist and also this newspaper article for more information about the fire. I first saw the video (embedded here) on the Section B10 website a couple of days ago in their videos of the week section. You will see just how close the fire came to the residences on Weber Ave. in Sayerville NJ. Several municipal fire departments including those from near by towns, ground crews from the NJ Forest Fire Service, and at least one AgCat worked together to contain the fire several hours after it started. I understand that there was another SEAT working the fire, I'm not sure if it was a second AgCat or the AT-602 assigned to Division B.

During the first three minutes various municipal fire fighters are shown fighting the fire in the residential neighborhood. At about 3 minutes and 40 seconds, ground crews from the NJ Forest Fire Service are shown fighting the fire in the grass behind the houses, including lighting back fires.

You will see an AgCat flying overhead at about 5 minutes and again at 5 minutes 20 seconds into the video, but you don't see the actual drop. At 7 minutes 15 seconds and again at about 8 minutes 46 seconds you will see an AgCat dropping water.

Nice job everyone!