Our military sets fire to New Jersey
Firefighters in New Jersey battled a massive
wildfire that had consumed more than 20 square miles of brush and pine forest
after a military jet dropped a flare on a bombing range.
Firefighters in New Jersey kept an anxious eye on the weather Wednesday as they battled a massive wildfire that had consumed more than 20 square miles of brush and pine forest after a military jet dropped a flare on a bombing range.
The blaze sent walls of flames 80 to 100 feet high racing toward senior citizen communities, where elderly residents grabbed their pets and ran.
“It was as close to hell on Earth as you’ll ever experience in your life,” said Bert Plante, a spokesman for the New Jersey Forest Fire Service. He spoke in a trailer park where two homes were incinerated and others were damaged.
The Warren Grove Gunnery Range, about 25 miles north of Atlantic City, was also involved in a 2004 incident when a National Guard jet accidentally strafed an elementary school during a training exercise.
Nice to see our defenders are consistent - if nothing else. Although I never would have identified New Jersey as potential collateral damage.
Posted: Wed - May 16, 2007 at 03:42 PM