Health advisories were issued for parts of New York and northeastern New Jersey due to unhealthy air quality from the smoke.
A New York forest ranger died while battling one of several wildfires raging in New Jersey and New York amid dry conditions prompting air quality warnings in both states, authorities reported on Sunday.New York State Police identified the forest ranger as 18-year-old Dariel Vasquez, who was among those battling the fire Saturday in Greenwood Lake, near the New Jersey border. Officials said a tree fell on him.
'The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's Forest Fire Service reported that the extensive blaze had covered over 3 square miles near the border in Passaic County's West Milford and Orange County, New York. Named the Jennings Creek wildfire, it posed a threat to two homes and eight buildings in the Long Pond Ironworks Historic District.
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