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The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJ DEP) provide their first update since February on their plan to restore of LSP.
Firefighters have a good handle on two major wildfires that have burned through a combined 1,000 acres in Burlington and Ocean counties during the past two days. Smoky conditions, however, are expected to remain in Ocean County. The New Jersey Forest Fire Service said Tuesday afternoon the fire in the Brendan T. Byrne State Forest in Pemberton Township, which burned 407 acres, is 50% contained. It was first reported around 10:20 p.m. Monday night. Get our free mobile app Assistant Division Forest Firewarden Jeremy Webber said that the 30 firefighters still on scene are working on burning out ...
Credit: (AP Photo/Wayne Parry) New Jersey Pinelands The Department of Environmental Protection plans to hold public hearings to try to settle a long-running confrontation over the illegal use of off-road vehicles on state property in the Pinelands, the DEP’s new Commissioner, Shawn LaTourette, said. LaTourette hopes the hearings will find a way of balancing the interests of drivers of pickup trucks and all-terrain vehicles with those of hikers, birders or anglers. The hearings represent the latest attempt to resolve a rancorous public debate over the recreational use of the Pinelands, in wh...
N.J. Forest Fire Mostly Contained; Firefighter Still Critical By Wayne Parry | March 17, 2021 LAKEWOOD, N.J. (AP) — A forest fire near the Jersey Shore that shut down the Garden State Parkway, sent neighbors fleeing and led to a firefighter’s hospitalization in critical condition was “a very, very near catastrophe,” authorities said Monday. The fire that began Sunday afternoon in Lakewood and jumped the Parkway into Brick Township, eventually burned 167 acres, according to Greg McLaughlin, the state fire warden and chief of the New Jersey Forest Fir...
'Very near catastrophic': Forest fire that burned 170 acres in New Jersey, critically injured firefighter is 100% contained Nicolas Fernandes, Thomas P. Costello and Ken Serrano, Asbury Park Press Brush Fire in Lakewood closes Garden State Parkway Replay Video UP NEXT LAKEWOOD, N.J. — The forest fire that burned 170 acres, damaged homes and critically injured a firefighter in New Jersey is 100% contained, according to officials. The fire started in Lakewood on Sunday afternoon, damaging homes in Brick Lake Park and temporarily shutting down parts of the Garden State Pa...