BASS RIVER (AP) – Heavy rain overnight helped firefighters gain more control over a forest fire burning at a military bombing range in southern New Jersey, United States.
Fire officials said on Wednesday that half an inch of rain fell overnight at the Warren Grove Air to Ground Range, a training facility for the New Jersey Air National Guard in the New Jersey Pinelands.
That helped firefighters bring the blaze to 80 per cent containment, the New Jersey Forest Fire Service said.
As of Wednesday, it had burned 1,167 acres, or just under 5.3 square kilometres. No structures were threatened.
Fire crews remained on the scene on Wednesday working to fully contain the blaze.
