{"id":197148,"date":"2025-09-03T15:34:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/197148\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T15:34:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:34:16","slug":"nj-wildfire-rages-in-west-milford-township-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/197148\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ wildfire rages in West Milford Township \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities are battling a raging wildfire in New Jersey&#8217;s Passaic County, a smoky line of flames that had devoured 90 acres and counting as of Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>New Jersey&#8217;s Forest Fire Service said in its early update that the so-called Buckabear Wildfire in West Milford Township was 20% contained, a marked improvement from their last announcement. At this point, no evacuations have been ordered and no structures are threatened.<\/p>\n<p>Forest Fire Service fire engines and ground crews are responding. Clinton Road is closed between Goldfinch Lane and Van Orden Road to facilitate firefighting efforts. <\/p>\n<p>People who live in the area and have breathing issues are advised to limit outdoor exposure and keep their windows closed to mitigate the smoke. <\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities are battling a raging wildfire in New Jersey&#8217;s Passaic County, a smoky line of flames that had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":197149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,401,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5609],"class_list":{"0":"post-197148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-jersey","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa","22":"tag-wildfires"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115141100473421683","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}