A wind-whipped forest fire in the southern New Jersey Pinelands threatened 16 homes Tuesday. But firefighters were optimistic they could keep the flames away from the houses.
No injuries or damage to property had occurred as of late Tuesday afternoon, when the blaze had burned 125 acres and was not contained at all.
No one had to be evacuated in the initial hours of the blaze, even as fire trucks and water tankers were positioned near the homes that firefighters considered potentially vulnerable to the blaze, said Greg McLaughlin, administrator of the New Jersey Forest Fire Service. Also hampering the fire's spread were numerous marshy bogs within the wildlife area that are wet from spring rains, McLaughlin said.State, county and local investigators were looking into how it might have started, but no cause was immediately apparent, McLaughlin said.
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