Firefighters are battling wildfires from California to New Jersey and New York, hampered by high winds and record-setting dry conditions. The dry conditions are raising fears not only of more fires in the near future, but also of threats to drinking water supplies in many places.
Smoke from a forest fire rises above the trees in Evesham,N.J. on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024, when firefighters said conditions were the driest in New Jersey in nearly 120 years. Smoke from a forest fire rises above the trees in Evesham, N.J. on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. Water levels sit below normal at the Brick Reservoir in Brick N.J., on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024 amid record-breaking dry conditions in New Jersey . A spillway, designed to keep a pond in Allaire State Park in Wall, N.J.
Crews in California made good progress against a major wildfire in Ventura County, northwest of Los Angeles, that broke out a week ago and quickly exploded in size because of dry Conditions in California were “abnormally dry” but had not reached serous drought levels on most of the state, according to the Nebraska-based National Drought Mitigation Center.
Murphy, New Jersey’s Democratic governor, asked people to take shorter showers, only run the dishwasher when it is full, and turn off the water while brushing their teeth.
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