fires

Within 150 seconds, a little spark in a makeshift living room, decorated for the holidays, turned into a 1,200-degree raging inferno.

The head of the New Jersey Forest Fire Service says even a small out- of-control fire in the Garden State could become "catastrophic” because we’re so densely populated.

Smoke from the west coast forest fires has reached the East Coast causing cloudy and hazy skies over New Jersey.

It happens when a container of flammable liquid with a long neck is poured out near a flame source, and the vapors built up inside the neck ignite in a streak of fire that can reach 10 to 12 feet long.

A forest fire that started late Thursday afternoon burned several hundred acres overnight in Cumberland County and continued Friday morning.

A national program to raise awareness of fire hazard protection in wooded and forested areas continues to gain traction after those huge blazes in California and Australia.

Almost a year after a special legislative hearing, little if anything has been done to lower the risk of a potentially disastrous wildfire breaking out in the Pinelands.

But experts warn hard to detect, low level fires may burn for days then suddenly erupt.