PEMBERTON Smoke and road closures filled the area near Brendan T. Byrne State Forest on 4 Mile Road, as a forest fire engulfed hundreds of acres Monday night and Tuesday.
Residents are asked to use caution traveling as roads open near the fire. No structures were threatened by the blaze as of Tuesday evening.
The New Jersey Forest Fire Service (NJFFS) is working to contain the flames. Pemberton Township Volunteer Fire Department posted a social media update Tuesday morning saying the fire had been about 50 percent contained.
The Batona Trail is closed to public until further notice.
As of Tuesday afternoon, the fire had consumed up to 400 acres, the New Jersey Forest Fire Service said.
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TOP STORY OF THE DAY, brought to you free by WICU: Pond accident victim was missing Terre Haute woman
Monday, May 10, 2021 ~ Updated 12:35 PM
By IVY JACOBS, Times Reporter
The scene of a potential hit-and-run accident that damaged the INDOT sign for Indiana Sheriffs Youth Ranch entrance sometime April 30 turned out to be much more Friday. Cell phone technology helped locate a woman reported missing in Vigo County at a ravine on State Road 59 near the Indiana Sheriffs Youth Ranch.
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The Clay County Sheriffs Office confirms a death occurred during a strange vehicle accident along State Road 59.
Friday, May 7, 2021 ~ Updated 10:25 PM
By IVY JACOBS, Times Reporter
The details are limited concerning an ongoing Clay County Sheriff s Office active investigation into a strange vehicle accident along State Road 59.
According to officials, law enforcement was actively searching for the whereabouts of a vehicle potentially involved in a recent hit-and-run accident that damaged the Indiana Sherriff s Youth Ranch sign.
Officers were searching for evidence along State Road 59, just north of County Road 500 North, Friday afternoon. When the sun came out, they noticed something down a ravine in the water of a small pond on the east side of the highway.
14th & Chestnut Community Center, from 14th & Chestnut Community Center Endowment Fund and Col. Peter Baer Memorial Fund
American Cancer Society, Vigo County Unit, from Earl and Hazel Travioli Charitable Endowment Fund
American Heart Association, from Earl and Hazel Travioli Charitable Endowment Fund
ARC of Vigo County, from ARC of Vigo County Endowment Fund
Archdiocese of Indianapolis – United Catholic Appeal, from Mary Kindrick Memorial Fund and Pfister Fund
Area 7 Agency on Aging and Disabled, from Area 7 Agency on Aging and Disabled Endowment Fund
Art Spaces, Inc., from Art Spaces Endowment Fund
Boy Scouts of America, Crossroads of America Council, from Boy Scouts of America,
I heard it roaring, Davis said on Wednesday morning.
Davis lives two houses northwest of the fire that spread throughout the Shorewood Forest subdivision and damaged four houses and killed two dogs Tuesday afternoon. We re all in a state of shock today, Davis said of himself and fellow neighbors who live along the 400 block of Scarborough Road in Union Township.
Union Township Volunteer Fire Department Capt. Carter Werno said his department was called to Shorewood Forest at 1:20 p.m. Tuesday for a report of a house on fire.
That house, in the 400 block of Scarborough Road, was engulfed in flames and had to be demolished Tuesday night, Werno said.