North Jersey Wildland Fire Association

05/03/2025

05/03/2025

WILDFIRE UPDATE: Route 46 Wildfire - Hackettstown, Warren County

The New Jersey Forest Fire Service has made substantial progress containing a wildfire burning in Hackettstown, Warren County.

SIZE & CONTAINMENT
🔥 100 acres
🔥 75% contained

STRUCTURES THREATENED
⚠️ 1 structure threatened - down from 25 earlier
✅ 0 structures evacuated

PROPERTY DAMAGE
⚠️ 1 outbuilding destroyed
⚠️ 1 outbuilding damaged

ROADS AFFECTED
✅ Route 46 reopened
✅ Tannery Road reopened
✅ Russling Road reopened

RESOURCES DEPLOYED
🚒 Forest Fire Service fire engines and ground crews.

FIRE CAUSE
🔥 Under investigation

NEXT UPDATE
⏰ Approximately 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 3

NO DRONES IN FIRE ZONES
Please remember, “No Drones in Fire Zones - If YOU fly, WE can't!” More info: https://www.facebook.com/NJForestFireService/posts/pfbid02XeCUXmgBdqXSqbZE3d3roqQb3EFkkFKRD9xkav4VYaHKWzL4Mym9HoVHMdPGUpvwl

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Helpful Wildfire Terminology
🔥 Wildfire - An uncontrolled fire burning the different types of vegetation that cover the land. A wildfire is considered a “major wildfire” after it exceeds 100 acres in size.
🔥 Containment - When reporting on a wildfire a percentage of containment will be given, which will state how much of the fireline has been completed.
🔥 Backfire - A fire intentionally set along the interior edge of a fireline by Forest Fire Service staff to consume fuel in the path of a wildfire and/or to change the direction of force of a fire’s convection column.
🔥 Fireline - The part of a containment or control line that is scraped or dug to mineral soil.
🔥 Threatened - Critical infrastructure, roads, homes and commercial buildings that are in the vicinity of a wildfire.

05/02/2025

WILDFIRE UPDATE: Route 46 Wildfire - Hackettstown, Warren County

The New Jersey Forest Fire Service is on scene of a wildfire burning in Hackettstown, Warren County.

SIZE & CONTAINMENT
🔥 100 acres
🔥 0% contained

STRUCTURES THREATENED
⚠️ 25 structures threatened
✅ 0 structures evacuated

ROADS AFFECTED
⚠️ Route 46 closed from Petersburg Road and Johnson Road
⚠️ Tannery Road closed
⚠️ Russling Road closed

RESOURCES DEPLOYED
🚒 Forest Fire Service fire engines, bulldozers and ground crews.
🚁 A Forest Fire Service helicopter is on scene capable of dropping 300 gallons of waters

FIRE CAUSE
🔥 Under investigation

NEXT UPDATE
⏰ Approximately 9:30 p.m. on Friday, May 2

NO DRONES IN FIRE ZONES
Please remember, “No Drones in Fire Zones - If YOU fly, WE can't!” More info: https://www.facebook.com/NJForestFireService/posts/pfbid02XeCUXmgBdqXSqbZE3d3roqQb3EFkkFKRD9xkav4VYaHKWzL4Mym9HoVHMdPGUpvwl

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Helpful Wildfire Terminology
🔥 Wildfire - An uncontrolled fire burning the different types of vegetation that cover the land. A wildfire is considered a “major wildfire” after it exceeds 100 acres in size.
🔥 Containment - When reporting on a wildfire a percentage of containment will be given, which will state how much of the fireline has been completed.
🔥 Backfire - A fire intentionally set along the interior edge of a fireline by Forest Fire Service staff to consume fuel in the path of a wildfire and/or to change the direction of force of a fire’s convection column.
🔥 Fireline - The part of a containment or control line that is scraped or dug to mineral soil.
🔥 Threatened - Critical infrastructure, roads, homes and commercial buildings that are in the vicinity of a wildfire.

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Members took a minute to reflect at the Jeffrey Scheuerer Memorial Site and lay a wreath. Merry Christmas Jeff.

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Sunset from Budd Lake Fire Tower.

📷 Bob Gerstner
New Jersey Forest Fire Service

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Smokey Bear was making his rounds the other night at National Night Out in Newton!

Kimberly Williams, Community Development Director for the Town of Newton with Smokey the Bear!

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Members of the NJFFS crew from Division A getting after it in New Mexico.

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📖 🔥 Training Opportunities!!!

In the summer of 1995, two severe wildfires devastated the Central Pine Barrens communities of Rocky Point, Ridge, Northampton and Westhampton Beach.  These events represented the first time in recent history in which local firefighters faced wildfires of the scale and magnitude of those more commo...