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New Jersey’s wildfire season is underway. Here’s what you need to know
New Jersey’s wildfire season, which runs through mid-May, occurs in some of the most fire-prone forests in the country. Climate change is increasing the risk.
SUSAN PHILLIPS / WHYY – Mid-March brings longer days, warmer temperatures, migrating birds and wildfire season to New Jersey. While typically limited to spring and fall, climate change is raising risks and lengthening the wildfire season in the state.
“With the exception of this year because we had so much snow on the ground we find ourselves having fires all year round,” said Bill Donnelly, state fire warden in chief of the New Jersey Forest Fire Service …
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