By LEE PROCIDA Staff Writer pressofAtlanticCity.com Warm and windy weather helped dozens of fires spread across southern New Jersey this weekend, most of which were minor and in secluded areas.
About 20 acres of marsh and forest burned Saturday in Little Egg Harbor Township, and the state Forest Fire Service responded to an estimated 33 fires in the southern and central parts of the state.
Several smaller fires burned Sunday in parts of Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland and Ocean counties as well, fire officials said.
That included a small section of woods off Tilton Road in Egg Harbor Township on Sunday morning, and a small fire in a secluded section of Barnegat Township.
"That's a little more excitement than we need at this time of the year," said Division Fire Warden Bert Plante, adding wildfires are more common after mid-March.
The fire service also lit several prescribed burns throughout the weekend, including about 105 total acres in the Ocean County areas of Brendan T. Byrne State Forest, Double Trouble State Park and Ocean County Park.
About 20 acres of marsh and forest burned Saturday in Little Egg Harbor Township, and the state Forest Fire Service responded to an estimated 33 fires in the southern and central parts of the state.
Several smaller fires burned Sunday in parts of Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland and Ocean counties as well, fire officials said.
That included a small section of woods off Tilton Road in Egg Harbor Township on Sunday morning, and a small fire in a secluded section of Barnegat Township.
"That's a little more excitement than we need at this time of the year," said Division Fire Warden Bert Plante, adding wildfires are more common after mid-March.
The fire service also lit several prescribed burns throughout the weekend, including about 105 total acres in the Ocean County areas of Brendan T. Byrne State Forest, Double Trouble State Park and Ocean County Park.
