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<p><span style="font-weight:400">New Jersey officials ordered thousands of residents to evacuate on Tuesday after a fire erupted and spread out of control in Ocean County.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">The Jones Road Forest Fire had consumed 3,200 acres and was just 5% contained by 8 p.m. ET on Tuesday evening. The fire forced 3,000 nearby residents to evacuate. Roughly 23,000 JCP&;L customers have lost power, according to </span><a href="https://www.nj.com/news/2025/04/massive-nj-wildfire-rages-out-of-control-3000-residents-evacuated.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight:400">NJ.com</span></a><span style="font-weight:400">.</span></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">WILDFIRE UPDATE: Jones Road Wildfire – Ocean &; Lacey Townships, Ocean County</p>
<p>New Jersey Forest Fire Service remains on scene of a wildfire burning in Ocean &; Lacey Townships, Ocean County.</p>
<p>SIZE &; CONTAINMENT<br />ð¥ 3,200 acres<br />ð¥ 5% contained <a href="https://t.co/nxdzQNQ5Ot">pic.twitter.com/nxdzQNQ5Ot</a></p>
<p>— New Jersey Forest Fire Service (@njdepforestfire) <a href="https://twitter.com/njdepforestfire/status/1914834324563890401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 23, 2025</a></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400">The fire shut down multiple roads and has threatened over 1,300 structures. Local and state resources including “Forest Fire Service fire engines, bulldozers and ground crews” and </span><span style="font-weight:400">“[n]umerous local fire, rescue, county and state cooperators” have been dispatched to fight the fire, according to the New Jersey Forest Fire Service.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">The cause of the fire is under investigation.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">“[An] average of 1,500 wildfires damage or destroy 7,000 acres of New Jersey’s forests each year,” the New Jersey Forest Fire Service </span><a href="https://www.nj.gov/dep/parksandforests/fire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight:400">website</span></a><span style="font-weight:400"> says. Over half of New Jersey under a “high” fire risk, the site says.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">Videos of the inferno have surfaced online, showing a massive blaze burning through New Jersey forest.</span></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">A massive wildfire is burning in Ocean County, New Jersey, on Tuesday. Some homes in Barnegat Township have been ordered to evacuate. <a href="https://t.co/dNfmfAEpnp">https://t.co/dNfmfAEpnp</a> <a href="https://t.co/lHsnotMa7i">pic.twitter.com/lHsnotMa7i</a></p>
<p>— CBS Philadelphia (@CBSPhiladelphia) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSPhiladelphia/status/1914809019035689048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 22, 2025</a></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400">An eyewitness </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1882868009218571&;rdid=XkZbAC2sGE21nXvY" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight:400">video</span></a><span style="font-weight:400"> posted to Facebook shows flames towering over and surrounding nearby buildings as emergency workers and others move. </span><span style="font-weight:400">NJ.com identified the setting as an “industrial complex in Lacey Township.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">Swaths of New Jersey are under moderate and severe drought conditions, according to the </span><a href="https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?fips_34029" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight:400">U.S. Drought Monitor</span></a><span style="font-weight:400">. Ocean County is largely under dry conditions that swing toward a moderate drought at the southern end of the county.</span></p>
<p>Winds have gusted at up to 25 miles-per-hour, contributing to the spread of the blaze, according to NJ.com.</p>
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Massive Fire Rages In New Jersey; Thousands Evacuated
