Deadly Wildfire in New York and New Jersey

United States: Firefighters are still battling a wildfire in New York and New Jersey that has killed a parks employee and caused delays to Veterans Day events.

The Jennings Creek Wildfire has burned over 3,000 acres. By Sunday night, it had spread to 4.7 square miles and was only 10% contained. The fire is threatening 25 buildings, including two homes in New Jersey.

As reported by the abc7ny.com, the fire has yielded a life to a New York State Parks employee. The New York State Police have already identified the man as being 18 years old named Dariel Vasquez who was a basically worker of the New York State Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation of the Department. Authorities have already claim that he was struck by a tree at a fire scene and the man was a member of a firefighter team.

The East Ramapo Central School District said Vasquez was a member of the Class of 2024 at the school. More than USD 45000 have been raised through a Go Fund Me campaign in the name of the fallen volunteer firefighter.

This could really be the dangerous thing to battle this kind of horror scene which is right now facing by some prominent states of United States.

A Veterans Day ceremony in West Milford, New Jersey, was moved to a later date in November due to the firefighting effort, said Rudy Hass of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S.

“The majority of the personal involved in the operations at the fire are veterans themselves and at this time they need all our positive thoughts as they spend many hours day and night trying to do everything in their power to protect our great communities in that area,” he wrote in his blog.

The forest fire services in both New Jersey and New York states have mobilised their forces to combat the current wildfires in Passaic County NJ and Orange County NY.

Orange County Executive Steven Neuhaus said: “We had approximately 40 homes and residents evacuated, and we never had to force them because they saw through the window a big fire approaching.”

However, capacity is woefully insufficient when it comes to manpower with most of the crews being made of volunteer firefighters.

Although they could not work efficiently, people tried to save neighboring houses late into Monday morning.

The light showers of rain on Sunday night were extinguished too early to penetrate the ground for the drought has gotten to a head. It has got to the roots of the trees and even travels underground.