As Wildfire Season Starts Slowly, DEP Advises: Don’t Become Complacent

A rather wet March and early April have kept wildfires in New Jersey at a minimum this year. But officials from the state Department of Environmental Protection’s Forest Fire Service remind residents “this could change.”

As Bill Donnelly, newly sworn-in state forest fire warden and Forest Fire Service chief noted during a DEP briefing on Tuesday, April 9, “It only takes a day or two with the wind blowing and (warmer) temperatures like today.”