Saturday, October 26, 2024

2024 New Jersey Wildfire Season: Industrial Parkway Fire, Essex County

There is a wildfire in Livingston in Essex County, the Industrial Parkway Fire. Earlier today this wildfire threatened 48 structures and six commercial businesses were evacuated, that number is now down to ten structures threatened. There are currently no evacuations. While some roads have reopened, other roads in the area of the fire remain closed as I write this. See this report from the NJ Forest Fire Service on Facebook for the earlier update.

Per the last update at about 9 PM tonight, October 26th, the wildfire has burned 120 acres and is at 60 percent containment with ten structures threatened.

October 27, 7 AM No new updates on the Industrial Parkway Fire yet, I will make a post later today with updates. In the meantime. News 12 New Jersey reported on this fire on the evening of October 26, their report with a video may be found here. Their reporter who was in Livingston last night reported from the Livingston Shopping Mall which was evacuated earlier that day. By the way, I used to live about 30 minutes from Livingston over 20 years ago and was familiar with that shopping mall and that area. In addition, NJ Advance Media reported on the fire. The Livingston Fire Department with the assistance of the NJ Forest Fire Service and mutual aid from other towns responded to this fire. From what I understand the Livingston Fire Department was the first responder and then reached out to the NJ Forest Fire Service for assistance in fighting this fire. I first learned about this fire last night from checking out the B10 NJ Wildland Fire Page  to look at their daily videos, a shout out to them for their great website with great daily videos and great reporting on major wildfires in New Jersey.

1:30 PM, see my Oct 27th post for the Oct 27th morning from the NJ Forest Fire Service as well as some media coverage


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