Governor, in Roundtable on Wildfires at Coyle Field, Learns of Aging Equipment and Decreased Staffing at State Forest Fire Service

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Governor, in Roundtable on Wildfires at Coyle Field, Learns of Aging Equipment and Decreased Staffing at State Forest Fire Service - Pine Barrens Tribune

WOODLAND—Governor Phil Murphy last week visited for the first time Coyle Field, an airfield utilized by the New Jersey Forest Fire Service (NJFFS) in Woodland Township, and during the visit that came during his final year in office, the governor was implored by Woodland Township Mayor William...

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Governor, in Roundtable on Wildfires at Coyle Field, Learns of Aging Equipment and Decreased Staffing at State Forest Fire Service - Pine Barrens Tribune

WOODLAND—Governor Phil Murphy last week visited for the first time Coyle Field, an airfield utilized by the New Jersey Forest Fire Service (NJFFS) in Woodland Township, and during the visit that came during his final year in office, the governor was implored by Woodland Township Mayor William...

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Will be waiting to see the results of "talk off-line and maybe sharpen our pencils".

 

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“Maintaining the roads out here in the forest is extremely important,” DeGroff declared. “When I was a kid, you could ride around here to these roads. Now, a lot of these roads are overgrown. There are water holes you can’t get through, mud holes, and they are a mess. And I think the project that has been going on with doing the firebreaks is very important out here.”

Seems to conflict with lack of maintenance and blocking of roads causing them to be overgrown.