Firefighters faced a setback after dry and windy conditions reignited parts of the Jennings Creek Wildfire, which is now 90% contained.
A voluntary evacuation zone remains in place as crews make significant progress on the Jennings Creek Wildfire . It is now 90% contained.It resulted in about 140 homes being voluntarily evacuated as the fire got closer.
Firefighters along the New Jersey-New York border say that evacuation helped them protect nearby homes. The efforts to keep the fire at bay continued into Sunday as helicopters used thousands of gallons of water from nearby Greenwood Lake and doused the flames by air."It's kind of a waiting game because it's safer to let it come to you than climb this terrain and try to extinguish it in the middle of things," Bob Rogers, state forest ranger, said. "This fire is not going out anytime soon, this is going to be Mother Nature putting the final lid on this one.
18-year-old Dariel Vasquez was a State Parks Wildland fire crew member who was killed while helping to clear dry brush from catching fire. His wake was held Sunday and the funeral is scheduled for Monday at 10 a.m. at St. Peter's Church in Haverstraw.Copyright © 2024 WABC-TV. All Rights Reserved.
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