UPDATE: The latest in a series of recent area brush fires was the biggest, as winds Friday night blew a blaze through a swath of the Meadowlands.
At the scene.
Photo Credit: James Wood Sr. for DAILY VOICEOff Murray Hill Parkway in East Rutherford.
Photo Credit: East Rutherford FDWinds kept the Meadowlands brush fire going.
Photo Credit: East Rutherford FDUnder control.
Photo Credit: James Wood Sr. for DAILY VOICEThe fire broke out shortly after 10 p.m. near the East Rutherford Public Works building off Murray Hill Parkway and Madison Circle Drive near Berry's Creek.
East Rutherford firefighters thought they had most of the blaze knocked within 20 or so minutes. But a third alarm was called a little under an hour after it began.
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