On Saturday November 11 wildland firefighters from New Jersey Forest Fire Service Section A1 and A2 conducted a 25 acre prescribed burn in Montague Township located in northern Sussex County bordering New York and Pennsylvania.
Prescribed burns, aka Rx burns are an important tool to help reduce the risk of wildfires where wildland firefighting crews go in under very specific conditions to set fires to burn away underbrush. Go here to read more about the New Jersey Forest Fire Service's prescribed burning program.
Here are some photos from the NJ Forest Fire Service Section A1 (shared on their Facebook page) of this prescribed burn. Click on the Facebook post below to see the photos.
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