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Forest Fire
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Toxic Pollution Concerns Rekindled By 'Canonball 2' Wildfire On DuPont Site
UPDATE: A blaze that burned through much of the weekend in the Ramapo Mountains wasn't the usual run-of-the-mill forest fire. The fire, which continued to smolder late Saturday afternoon well into Sunday, was on a notorious 570-acre expanse of property in Pompton Lakes considered one of New Jersey's most polluted. Toxic substances that were dumped from what was a munitions plant on the DuPont site from 1902 to 1994 leached into the groundwater, creating an underground vapor of cancer-causing solvents. Saturday's blaze -- dubbed the "Cannonball 2" -- covered more than 100 acres of Ramapo M…