NU Online News Service, April 11, 1:52 p.m. EDT
Wildfires in New Jersey and New York are prompting warnings of an active fire season because of unusually dry conditions along the East coast coupled with record high temperatures in March.
“In 2011, wildfires scorched more than eight million acres across the United States, damaging thousands of homes, businesses and vehicles and causing $855 million in insured losses,” says Robert P. Hartwig, president of the Insurance Information Institute in a statement. “With more than 15,000 temperature records broken in the United States in March 2012 alone, combined with low precipitation and little or no snowpack across much of the nation's lower 48 states, this year could be very active one for wildfires and brushfires, including parts of the Northeast where such events are relatively uncommon.”
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