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'Pray For NJ': 70-Acre Wildfire Burns Along Popular Mount Tammany Hiking Trail 'Pray For NJ': 70-Acre Wildfire Burns Along Popular Mount Tammany Hiking Trail
'Pray For NJ': 70-Acre Wildfire Burns Along Popular Mount Tammany Hiking Trail State and federal firefighting agencies battled a wildfire that spread across nearly 70 acres of a popular hiking trail on the New Jersey side of the Delaware Water Gap and was still burning Monday morning. The fire was reported Sunday afternoon in Hardwick Township's Worthington State Forest off Mount Tammany's Red Dot Trail, and could be seen from Route 80. The mountain peak overlooks the New Jersey and Pennsylvania border on Route 80. Hikers on Sunday were allowed to descend on the Blue Blazed and Red Dot trails but access was closed to visitors on their way up. The fire remained acti…

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by Cecilia Levine