New Jersey environmental officials are fighting fire with fire, using so-called 'controlled burns' to reduce the risk of future wildfires by burning pine needles, dead leaves and other dry underbrush.
LITTLE EGG HARBOR, New Jersey -- New Jersey environmental officials are fighting fire with fire, using so-called"controlled burns" to reduce the risk of future wildfires by burning pine needles, dead leaves and other dry underbrush.
The small fires being set this week in various parts of the Pinelands come as the state has been experiencing a dry spell that could lead to more and bigger fires. The area being set ablaze on Wednesday was not far from where four Eagleswood Township firefighters died in a blaze in 1977, and where five members of the Civil Conservation Corps died in a 1936 fire.
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