They've Bombed New Jersey!!!!!

[obiwanmom]

Is anyone watching this? Half of New Jersey is on Fire! They only have it %30 contained and it's been burning for at least 24 hours. Supposedly an F16 fighter jet dropped a flare or a bomb by mistake? And the reporters just keep referring to it as a wildfire. Like it just started by itself.
Many people have lost their homes already. The government is dong an investigation. Hmmmmmmmm... A lot of fires lately. It's speculated that the last one in Los Angeles was deliberately set.

Links:
http://wcbstv.com/local/local_story_135174926.html
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3179264
http://abcnews.go.com/search?searchtext=los%20angeles%20fire&type=

[obiwanmom]

The TV report on Fox didn't mention the F16 at all tonight as the cause of the wildfire. It's on their web site though:
http://www.myfoxny.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=3227699&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.1.1

This is horrible!

[tinmenace]

FOLKSTON, Georgia (AP) -- A second wildfire in the Okefenokee Swamp has burned more than 100,000 acres, rivaling in just five days the vast record-setting fire that has scorched southeast Georgia for more than three weeks, firefighters said Thursday.

Georgia and Florida have been battling wildfires for weeks, with nearly 300 square miles charred as a drought has left the land tinder-dry.

Source (http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/11/wildfire.wrap.ap/index.html)



Yeah, what's going on?? Dropping flares during a drought? Just doesn't make sense.