Connecticut
Wildfires Spread Across New Jersey and Connecticut: ‘No End in Sight’
A spate of wildfires crisscrossing New Jersey prompted a statewide smoke advisory on Friday, as flames from one blaze in the Palisades, across the Hudson River from Manhattan, roared dangerously close to the nearby suburbs. The 39-acre fire on the usually verdant cliffs of the Palisades was 30 percent contained by Friday afternoon, according to the New Jersey Forest Fire Service. It had not caused any injuries, the fire service said. Yet the…