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{"id":887,"date":"2025-05-05T16:47:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T20:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/njdep.local\/?page_id=887"},"modified":"2025-05-30T11:33:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T15:33:22","slug":"ready-set-go","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/parksandforests\/wildfire\/ready-set-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready &#8211; Set &#8211; Go!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row_content_no_spaces&#8221;][vc_column]                    <div class=\"custom-fullwidth-innerhero-section\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/parksandforests\/\/readysetgo.jpg');\"><\/div>\r\n                            <div class=\"breadcrumbs w-full\"><div class=\"contentholder\"><ul id=\"breadcrumbs\" class=\"breadcrumbs underfull\"><li class=\"item-home\"><a class=\"bread-link bread-home\" href=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/parksandforests\" title=\"Home\"><strong>Home<\/strong><\/a><\/li><li class=\"separator separator-home\"> &nbsp;&nbsp;\/&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div>\r\n    \r\n    <style>\r\n        .custom-fullwidth-depthero-section {\r\n            position: relative;\r\n            background-size: cover;\r\n            background-position: center;\r\n            background-repeat: no-repeat;\r\n            overflow: hidden;\r\n        }\r\n\r\n        .custom-fullwidth-depthero-section .bg-video {\r\n            position: absolute;\r\n            top: 0;\r\n            left: 0;\r\n            width: 100%;\r\n            height: 100%;\r\n            object-fit: cover;\r\n            z-index: 0;\r\n        }\r\n\r\n        .custom-fullwidth-depthero-section .custom-overlay {\r\n            position: relative;\r\n            z-index: 1;\r\n        }\r\n\r\n        @media screen and (max-width: 768px) {\r\n            .custom-fullwidth-depthero-section .bg-video {\r\n                display: none;\r\n            }\r\n        }\r\n    <\/style>\r\n\r\n    [\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row_content_no_spaces&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1746475432176{padding-top: 30px !important;}&#8221; el_class=&#8221;contentholder&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;]   \r\n    <div class=\"custom-text_heading-section\">    \r\n        <div class=\"contentholder\">\r\n                            <div>\r\n                                            <h2 class=\"fivezero blue\">Ready, Set, Go!<\/h2>\r\n                                                            The New Jersey Forest Fire Service is in the process of developing strategic plans for managing wildfire Forest Fire Service Gyro-Trac conducting fuel reduction at Popcorn Park Zoo, Ocean Countyhazard area within the state. The initial project began with the \u201cEast Plains Fireshed,\u201d an area of approximately 90,000-acres located within the Pinelands of Ocean and Burlington Counties. With a long history of devastating wildfires, this area ranks as the highest priority in the state for wildfire mitigation efforts. Additional planning for two other \u201cfiresheds\u201d located in Ocean County, the Berkeley and Forked River Firesheds are now underway. These firesheds include the Crossley Preserve, Greenwood Forest and Whiting Wildlife Management Areas, Double Trouble State Park, Miller Air Park (Ocean County Parks) and several cooperating private landowners such as America\u2019s Keswick in Whiting.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the firesheds is to develop effective wildfire management plans for the protection of life, property and natural resources that is integrated within the overall natural resource management objectives of the area. These plans will reduce accumulation of hazardous forest fuel through a proactive prescribed burning program and mechanical fuel reduction efforts regardless of property ownership boundaries. Further, these plans will coordinate work with local residents to reduce wildfire risk to their homes through Firewise and defensible space initiatives and conduct and analyze a comprehensive risk assessment for all homes and structures within the fireshed for display on GIS maps.<\/p>\n<p>Additional benefits of the plan include efforts to rehabilitate and restore fire adapted ecosystems where applicable; build interagency cooperation among several agencies in improving the implementation of fire management initiatives; initiate a public-private partnerships to develop bio-mass removal solutions that are economically and environmentally feasible in support of fuel reduction projects; and to develop a consensus from all stakeholders on what the future landscape should become.<\/p>\n<p>The East Plains Fireshed Management Plan will be developed in a coordinated effort with the United States Air Force, NJ Air National Guard, NJ Pinelands Commission, NJ Park Service, NJ Forest Management, NJ Division of Fish &amp; Wildlife, Garden State Parkway, Ocean and Burlington Counties as well as the municipalities of Stafford, Little Egg Harbor, and Bass River. The first of several linear fuel reduction projects has received the NJ Pineland Commission permits. The Hay Road Fuelbreak in Stafford Township and the Stafford Forge Wildlife Management Area is within the perimeter of the major wildfire that burned in May of 2007, and is intended to maintain the crown canopy and fuel loads at a lower, more manageable level than prior to the wildfire. Similar projects along Allen, Oswego, and Three Foot Road are in development.<\/p>\n<p>Successfully preparing for a wildland fire enables you to take personal responsibility for protecting yourself, your family and your property. In this Ready, Set, Go! Action Guide, our goal is to provide the tips and tools you need to prepare for a wildland fire threat; have situational awareness when a fire starts; and to leave early when instructed to do so.<\/p>\n<p>The Ready, Set, Go! 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