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And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano.

All right, today is Monday, June 20th. Good morning. Kathy?

Good morning. In the news this morning, Cruz in South Jersey are working to contain a raging

wildfire that's burning at Wharton State Forest.

Officials say that the fire burned at least 2,100 acres throughout Washington, Shemong, Hammington, and Mullica Townships.

The blaze is 20% contained the New Jersey Forest Fire Service said Sunday night.

But I did hear this morning there's only 10%.

So I'm not exactly sure what the

percentage is here. Bats do Village and all associated hiking and mountain biking trails are

closed to visitors. The Mullica River Campground, Mullica River Trail and boat launches along

the Mullica River are closed. Three closures, these closures will remain in effect until further notice. The

Pineland's adventure suspended kayak and canoe trips and the Paradise Lakes Campground was evacuated.

How many years ago was it there? There was a massive one. I know. I forget when that was.

And that burned for a long time. A long time, yeah. No injuries have been reported. Officials say the wildlife is being fuel, the wildfire is being fueled by dry and breezy

conditions.

I understand they're putting a lot of the wildlife up in hotels.

They're sure.

And, you know, I noticed a difference on the shore this weekend.

Did you?

Yeah, yeah, big time.

I'm amazed at how they can find out how these things start. You know what I mean? Like, you trace it back to one event or something like that. You'll find like an animal with loose lips. Yep. That's it. Yep. Listen, I saw something. I'm not saying this is it, but it looked like it's where it started. Usually an anonymous phone call, you know, something like that. Hello? Yeah. So there's, yeah, there's road closures. They have the mountain biking, the hiking trails all closed in the area because of this as they try to contain it. Well, fires like that, and we were talking about this last week, you know, you see footage. And it happens all the time where people go in and they think they're in a safe area, but the fire will loop back around and move quickly and then trap them. Yeah, of course.

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