{"id":214543,"date":"2026-06-09T13:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/214543\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T13:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:05:09","slug":"new-jersey-wildfire-smoke-drifts-into-lehigh-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/214543\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey wildfire smoke drifts into Lehigh Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A wildfire on a military base in New Jersey was being noticed far away in the Lehigh Valley on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service in Mount Holly, New Jersey, posted on its Facebook page that east winds were blowing smoke from the fire, which was reported at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst near Trenton, westward into eastern Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airnow.gov\/?city=Easton&amp;state=PA&amp;country=USA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AirNow.gov<\/a>, the air quality index over a large portion of the eastern Lehigh Valley \u2014 including Bethlehem and Easton \u2014 was in the yellow, or moderate range, as of 9 p.m. Moderate air quality indicates an index between 51 and 100.<\/p>\n<p>While air quality in that range is acceptable to most people, those who are unusually sensitive to air pollution could be at risk, according to AirNow.gov.<\/p>\n<p>Around 3:30 p.m., a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JointBaseMcGuireDixLakehurst\/posts\/pfbid02WtQ7yADipWxkmNxUFLm28TEjtp5Wzf5WogZVYSWVAme1rqLDdcvBgzAFuGiJmUBpl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">post on the Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst Facebook page<\/a> indicated that the fire, located within the perimeter of the military base, was contained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWildland crews are implementing back fire strategies to ensure the fire remains in place and reduce the risk of spread,\u201d the post read in part.<\/p>\n<p>The fire did not threaten any buildings or require any evacuations, according to the post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wildfire on a military base in New Jersey was being noticed far away in the Lehigh Valley&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,433,182,139,434,28,432,1133],"class_list":["post-214543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214543","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=214543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}