A野火肆虐在纽约和新泽西的边界上，一夜之间爆炸了5000英亩，促使官员们在周一推迟了美国最古老的退伍军人节游行之一。
消防队员正在与跨越纽约奥兰治县和新泽西州帕塞伊克县边界的詹宁斯溪大火进行斗争，第80届纽约西米尔福德退伍军人节游行的组织者宣布，由于持续的紧急情况，该活动将推迟至11月24日。
西米尔福德7198号外国战争退伍军人指挥官鲁迪·哈斯在一份声明中说:“凭良心说，我不能减损我们的消防员、警察、急救人员、DPW人员和我们的社区领导人目前在处理东海岸地区野火时所面临的所有辛勤工作。”。
哈斯说，许多与詹宁斯溪大火搏斗的消防员都是退伍军人。
哈斯说:“现在我们需要把他们放在心上，因为他们花了很多时间，不分昼夜，尽他们所能来保护我们在那个地区的伟大社区。”
官员们说，大火于周六爆发，烧毁了从新泽西州帕塞伊克县的西米尔福德到纽约奥兰治县的斯特林森林国家公园以及格林伍德湖纽约和新泽西两侧的干旱炎热的荒地。
纽约森林消防局(New York Forest Fire Service)表示，尽管该地区一个多月来首次出现可测量的降雨，但火势已从周日的约2500英亩(约合2000平方米)扩大到周一早上的5000多英亩(约合4.7平方英里)。
纽约州环境保护局的一名护林员在周一的新闻发布会上说，这场大火已经烧毁了纽约和新泽西州大约2500英亩的土地。
官员们说，消防队员在周日晚上与大火的战斗中取得了进展，将火势控制从0%提高到了20%。
官员们说，至少有25座建筑仍然受到大火的威胁，包括新泽西州长塘钢铁厂州立公园的八座历史建筑，这是一个历史悠久的175英亩的村庄，在革命战争期间生产铁。
纽约州公园和娱乐援助被杀了官员们说，周六帮助扑灭了詹宁斯溪大火。纽约州警方周日确认，死者是18岁的达里尔·瓦斯奎兹。
纽约和新泽西森林服务已经联合起来对抗州界两边的大火。
奥兰治县行政长官史蒂文·纽豪斯(Steven Neuhaus)表示，居住在火灾附近的许多居民已经自愿撤离。
“我们有大约40个家庭和居民自愿搬出，我们真的没有必要鼓励他们太多，因为他们看到窗外一场大风暴正向他们袭来，”纽豪斯告诉美国广播公司纽约站WABC.
官员们说，虽然周日的小暴雨在火线上受到欢迎，但降水对灭火没有什么作用。一夜之间，大约0.25英寸的降雨量覆盖了整个火灾区域。
“这为几名一直在不停工作以控制火势的工作人员提供了休息的机会，”新泽西州森林消防局周一早上在社交媒体上发布消息说。"今天，工作人员回到现场，将继续改善围堵线，并解决关注的领域."
起火原因仍在调查中。
新泽西州森林消防局局长比尔·唐纳利在周日的新闻发布会上说，消防队员可能要等到本周末才能扑灭大火。
官员们说，火灾发生在纽约和新泽西的大风和干旱条件下，周日之前，这两个州已经一个多月没有下雨了。
根据唐纳利的说法，自10月1日以来，新泽西州消防队员已经应对了537场野火，这些野火吞噬了4，500英亩，其中包括周五至周六点燃的约40场大火。纽约州环境保护局的护林员杰里米·奥德罗伊德说，自10月1日以来，纽约消防队员已经与60场野火进行了斗争，他们已经烧毁了2100英亩土地。
在周末的某个时候，新泽西州消防队员同时与至少六场席卷全州的重大灌木丛火灾进行战斗，其中包括帕塞伊克县的第二场大火。
“炮弹3号”大火于周五下午在帕塞伊克县庞顿湖附近开始，火势蔓延至181英亩。新泽西州森林消防局周日下午宣布，消防队员已经实现了对火灾的100%控制。
官员们说，新泽西州的另一场野火-猎枪走火-于周三开始，在消防队员控制住火势之前，烧毁了杰克逊镇科利尔斯米尔斯野生动物管理区的350英亩土地。官员称火灾原因是人为纵火。
调查人员得出结论，火灾始于中央新泽西步枪的护堤后面新泽西州杰克逊的& Pistol俱乐部，是由“龙息”12口径猎枪子弹的镁碎片引起的，它点燃了护堤上的材料。当局称，在新泽西州发射燃烧弹或曳光弹是非法的。
布里克镇37岁的理查德·沙夏提周六向警方自首。官员们周六表示，他被控纵火和违反枪支管理规定。
Jennings Creek wildfire explodes to 5,000 acres, delays one of nation's oldest Veterans Day parades
Awildfire ragingon the border of New York and New Jersey exploded overnight to 5,000 acres, prompting officials on Monday to postpone one of the oldest Veterans Day Parades in the nation.
As firefighters battled the Jennings Creek Fire straddling the border between Orange County, New York, and Passaic County, New Jersey, organizers of the 80th annual West Milford, New York, Veterans Day Parade, announced the event will be delayed until Nov. 24, due to the ongoing emergency.
"I cannot in good conscience detract from all the hard work our firefighters, police officers, first responders, DPW personnel and our community leaders are currently facing in dealing with wildfires along the East Shore area," Rudy Hass, commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7198 in West Milford, said in a statement.
Hass said many firefighters battling the Jennings Creek Fire are military veterans.
"Right now we need to keep them in our thoughts as they spend many hours, day and night, doing all they can in order to protect our great communities in that area," Hass said.
The blaze broke out Saturday and burned drought-parched wildland stretching from the West Milford in Passaic County, New Jersey, to the Sterling Forest State Park in New York's Orange County, and on both the New York and New Jersey sides of Greenwood Lake, officials said.
Despite the first measurable rain in the area in more than a month, the fire grew from about 2,500 acres on Sunday to over 5,000 acres, or about 4.7 square miles, by Monday morning, according to the New York Forest Fire Service.
The fire has burned about 2,500 acres on the New York and New Jersey sides of the fire, a forest ranger for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation said at a news conference Monday.
Firefighters made progress battling the fire Sunday night, increasing containment from 0% to 20%, officials said.
At least 25 structures remain threatened by the conflagration, including eight historic structures in New Jersey's Long Pond Ironworks State Park, a historic 175-acre village where iron was produced during the Revolutionary War, officials said.
A New York State Parks and Recreation aidwas killedon Saturday helping the battle the Jennings Creek Fire, officials said. The deceased parks employee was identified Sunday by the New York State Police as 18-year-old Dariel Vasquez.
The New York and New Jersey forest services have teamed up to fight the fire on both sides of the state line.
Orange County Executive Steven Neuhaus said numerous residents living near the fire have complied with voluntary evacuations.
"We had about 40 homes and residents that move out voluntarily, we really didn't have to encourage them too much because they saw out their windows a major firestorm coming their way," Neuhaus told ABC New York stationWABC.
While Sunday's light rainstorm was welcomed on the fire line, the precipitation did little to extinguish the fire, officials said. Overnight, about 0.25 inches of rain fell across the fire area.
"This provided an opportunity to rest several of the crews who have been working non-stop to contain this fire," the New Jersey Forest Fire Service said in a social media post on Monday morning. "Today, crews are back on scene and will continue to improve containment lines and address area of concern."
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
Chief Bill Donnelly of the New Jersey Forest Fire Service said at a news conference Sunday that it could take crews until the end of this week to extinguish the blaze.
The fire came amid blustery winds and drought conditions in New York and New Jersey, which before Sunday hadn't seen any rain in more than a month, officials said.
Since Oct. 1, New Jersey firefighters have responded to 537 wildfires that have consumed 4,500 acres, including about 40 fires that ignited between Friday and Saturday, according to Donnelly. Forest Ranger Jeremy Oldroyd, of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, said New York fire crews have battled 60 wildfires since Oct. 1, and they have burned 2,100 acres.
At one point over the weekend, New Jersey firefighters were simultaneously battling at least six significant brush fires that ignited across the state, including a second large wildfire in Passaic County.
The "Cannonball 3" fire began on Friday afternoon near Passaic County's Pompton Lake and grew to 181 acres. The New Jersey Forest Fire Service announced Sunday afternoon that firefighters had achieved 100% containment on the fire.
Another wildfire in New Jersey -- the Shotgun Fire -- started Wednesday and burned 350 acres of the Colliers Mills Wildlife Management Area in Jackson Township before firefighters gained control of the blaze, officials said. Officials said the cause of the fire was arson.
Investigators concluded the fire began behind a berm at the Central Jersey Rifle& Pistol Club in Jackson, New Jersey, and was caused by magnesium shards of a "Dragon's Breath" 12-gauge shotgun round, which ignited materials on the berm. Firing incendiary or tracer ammunition is illegal in New Jersey, authorities said.
Richard Shashaty, 37, of Brick Township, surrendered to the police on Saturday. He was charged with arson and violation of regulatory provisions relating to firearms, officials said Saturday.
