Developing: Several brush fires burned overnight in New Jersey. As ZinniaDee_TV reports, two in our area have been put out, but the largest it still burning in Ocean County.
have been put out. But rising temperatures and dry, windy conditions bring the risk of even more fires.
On Tuesday night, dry and windy conditions fueled the blaze in Teaneck, consuming part of an 800-acre park. Flames were seen shooting up as the fire grew off Teaneck Road, just a few yards from people's homes. There was another massive fire earlier in the afternoon in Jersey City. Recycled paper burned outside Reliable Paper Recycling, and then wind-whipped embers ignited brush fires on the Jersey Turnpike Extension all the way to the Exit 14C Plaza by the Holland Tunnel.
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