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JERSEY CITY, N.J. | , Assistant Professor and chairperson of the  (NJCU) Fire Science Department is cited as a subject matter expert in a New York Post story entitled "Why firefighters are struggling to bring the Jennings Creek Fire in NY and NJ under control."

With several wildfires roaring through Â鶹´«Ã½ as the state grapples with the driest conditions on record since at least 1865, Professor Nugent discusses the options that firefighters have to contain the fire that is burning along the Â鶹´«Ã½/New York border in Greenwood Lake outside of West Milford, N.J.

Read the full story published on November 11, 2024 by  and : 



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