{"id":163585,"date":"2026-04-12T02:44:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T02:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/163585\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T02:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T02:44:19","slug":"south-jersey-wildfire-fully-contained-160-acres-burned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/163585\/","title":{"rendered":"South Jersey wildfire fully contained, 160 acres burned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/sdy2fgd0mxaley2v.jpg\" alt=\"Massive wildfire burning in South Jersey, thick smoke pours into sky as crews respond\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">GLOUCESTER, N.J. &#8211; Firefighters in South Jersey have fully contained a wildfire that broke out in Gloucester County on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>   South Jersey wildfire <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The New Jersey Forest Fire Service first reported the fire around noon Saturday in the area of 8th Street in Deptford Township.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">In just an hour, the flames had burned approximately 50 areas. At the fire&#8217;s peak, officials said the flames were threatening about 100 buildings.<\/p>\n<p>A wildfire that broke out in West Deptford, New Jersey, on April 11, 2026. (Credit: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection) <\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The fire was fully contained around 6 p.m. Saturday, after burning approximately 160 acres, according to the Forest Fire Service.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The cause of the wildfire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/screenshot-2026-04-11-123508.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Crews will stay at the scene for the next few hours, bolstering containment lines and addressing other problem areas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials said to expect smoke in the area until &#8220;significant rain&#8221; falls in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article was written using information from the New Jersey Forest Fire Service.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/nj\/gloucester-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gloucester County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GLOUCESTER, N.J. &#8211; Firefighters in South Jersey have fully contained a wildfire that broke out in Gloucester County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[15365,139,1962,69,71,70,593],"class_list":["post-163585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-gloucester-county","tag-news","tag-nj","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}