We had a much welcomed rainy weekend here in New Jersey and environs which I hope addressed concerns over a drier than normal winter and spring. There was some flooding and I hope that things are drying out. It is getting to the end of the spring wildfire season here in New Jersey, although I must caution that a wildfire can happen anytime of year and the New Jersey Forest Fire Service will always be ready to fight a wildfire along with the help of mutual aid.
On a day when we are drying out and hopefully any wildfires (famous last words) in New Jersey and environs are smaller and easily contained, I was wondering what to write about today. Thanks to my friends from the NJFFS Section B10 website, I find a nice but somewhat long video (under 24 minutes) of footage from the Jimmy's Waterhole Fire that recently burned 3,859 acres in Manchester Township (Ocean County, NJ) where 170 structures were threatened with 70 residences under mandatory evacuation orders for a time. No structures were damaged and there were no injuries.
I enjoyed watching this video, in the first half of the video you will here and see firefighters from local municipalities responding to the need for structure protection. There is some nice wildfire footage and photographs. Starting at about time mark 12:55 there is about 10 minutes of footage and some still photographs of a NJ Forest Fire Service helicopters flying and dipping. Thanks to all who responded to put this wildfire out and those who supported the efforts of the firefighters. Nice job everyone.
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