Embers being driven ahead of the main line of flames could easily jump over roadways.
Forest Fire Service would have been outdone since such a wind-whipped wildfire would have gone postal.īased on wind trajectory, a fully feral wildfire might have burned all the way to Delaware Bay! There are woodlands nearly the entire way from the Bass River fire site to the tip of South Jersey. Even the astounding skills of our stellar N.J. Had the Bass River wildfire broken out a mere day later than it had, Saturday’s intense northeast winds would likely have spawned a firestorm disaster of out-West proportions, with far-ranging hellfire to pay.
Albeit a bit dramatic on my part, I can make a case that we came within the proverbial hair’s breadth of losing a huge swath of South Jersey, enough to make the lost 5,475 acres look like a Boy Scout campfire. It’s virtually always humans who begin the burns.Īs to that “worst possible time” angle, by Saturday I changed my tune, realizing that things could have been catastrophically worse, especially in these days of heating skies. Bleakly put, the amount of forest life lost was astronomically awful.Īdmittedly, I wax ugly after every wildfire, mainly in an “Only You Can Prevent …” way. Deer, especially fawns, felt the burn in the worst possible way. Box turtles also fell by the many dozens. Particularly hard hit were eastern towhees, the consummate Pine Barrens bird. In fact, it was a profoundly deadly day for an uncountable number of woodland dwellers, particularly birds, which saw their just-readied nest, some with life-to-be within, scorched. While officials reported that “no dwellings were threatened,” I lament that such statements reflect highly human-centric thinking.Īs a lifelong Pinelands aficionado and practiced supporter of wildlife, I can grimly assure that a shocking number of dwellings were lost. It was an especially smoky so-called “incident” due to moisture from lush late-spring greenery going up in, yep, smoke. Keep that time frame in mind since it roundaboutly validates the famed life admonition: Never say things can’t get worse.īy late Friday, New Jersey Forest Fire Service officials announced the Burlington County blaze was fully contained, having consumed 5,475 acres.
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That was my initial read upon seeing the recent Bass River wildfire going full bore. Special receptacles, like this one in Barnegat Lighthouse State Park, handle line better than everyday trash cans, which can’t always contain the line. DROP A LINE: A herring gull makes sure anglers offload discarded fishing line, lest it come back to entangle its avian friends.
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