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Deadly wildfire at border of New Jersey and New York grows to 5,000 acres; 20% contained
Firefighters are battling the Jennings Creek Fire straddling the border between Orange County, New York, and Passaic County, New Jersey. Organizers of the 80th annual West Milford, New Jersey ...
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Jennings Creek fire ‘will get a little larger’ before containment: Officials
New York fire officials said Monday. In just a few days the fire has burned 5,000 acres, about 7.8 square miles, across New York and New Jersey, according to Bryan Gallagher, a forest ranger with ...
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Jennings Creek Fire: New York issues statewide burn ban as wildfire becomes largest in years
Gov. Kathy Hochul said fire conditions "are still pretty dire." As the Jennings Creek Fire grew into the largest wildland blaze New York fire crews have battled in years, Gov. Kathy Hochul issued ...
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Family remembers teen killed fighting NY fire: ‘Full of promise’
NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) – A family is mourning after an 18-year-old was killed fighting a fire near Greenwood Lake Saturday afternoon. Dariel Vasquez, a senior and baseball team captain at ...
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Why firefighters are struggling to bring the Jennings Creek Fire in NY and NJ under control
The NJ Forest Fire Service has been working hand-in-hand with the New York Department of Environmental Conservation’s Division of Forest Protection and Fire Management to coordinate the response ...
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Fire crews on both US coasts battle wildfires; 1 death in New York-New Jersey fire
POMPTON LAKES, N.J. (AP) — Fire crews on both coasts of the United States continued battling wildfires on Sunday, including a blaze in New York and New Jersey that killed a parks employee and ...
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Fire at New Jersey-New York border still uncontrolled after burning over 2,500 acres
said New York fire crews have battled 60 wildfires since Oct. 1, and they have burned 2,100 acres. A New York State Parks and Recreation aid was killed on Saturday helping the battle the Jennings ...
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Wildfires rage across the Northeast amid warm, dry conditions
A brush fire in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park burned overnight Friday into Saturday after about 2 acres of dry vegetation ignited during heavy wind gusts, the New York City Fire Department said on X.
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By Emma G. Fitzsimmons A volunteer firefighter on Long Island was arrested after the police said he intentionally set a brush fire. The New York area has contended with numerous fires during an ...
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As Firehouse Sees It: Technology Is Here
He completed an internship with the Rochester, NY, Fire Department and served with fire departments in Rush, NY, and Laurel, MD, and was a lieutenant with the Glenwood Fire Company in Glenwood ...
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Much-needed rain helps wildfire suppression efforts, air quality across Northeast
NEW YORK — Crews are continuing to contain and extinguish several wildfires that ignited in the Northeast due to record-dry conditions, but some welcome rain should help with fire suppression ...
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Fire at New Jersey-New York border still uncontrolled after burning over 2,500 acres
Rain was falling across the Northeast on Sunday afternoon, bringing a much-needed assist to firefighters battling a major wildfire straddling the border of New Jersey and New York. But the blaze ...