In the wake of California’s devastating wildfires, New Jersey’s governor is worried neighboring New York is unprepared to fight fires along their shared border.
Gov. Phil Murphy used a Thursday press conference on wildfire readiness to say New York’s lack of a state fire service is “beyond belief.”
The comments come just three months after firefighters from both states struggled to contain a 5,000-acre blaze along their forested border in the northern part of New Jersey. The November fire, which started near the state border, burned for two weeks before it was contained.
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Murphy, a Democrat, called his state’s own 60-person statewide Forest Fire Service a “gem” and lambasted New York for not having a similar agency.
