New Jersey firefighters are still battling nine intense wildfires that have left a teenager dead and the region blanketed in a thick fog of smoke — although Mother Nature’s overnight rains might help quell the blazes.
The massive deadly fire in rural West Milford near the New York border was the largest that still raged Sunday, while smoke-eaters seemed to be getting a handle on suburban blazes in Passaic County’s Pompton Lakes and Englewood Cliffs in Bergen County, reports said.
The West Milford blaze — which began near Greenwood Lake — has consumed several thousand acres in New York and New Jersey and is the most widespread of the nearly 10 fires currently torching the bone-dry Garden State, which is suffering under severe drought conditions, according to The Record.