It was not immediately clear if the wildfire and crash, in which at least one person was reportedly killed, were connected.
on Sunday, fire officials said, hours after a small airplane had crashed in the area, reportedly killing at least one person.
It was not immediately clear whether the crash and the fire were connected, with local authorities saying Sunday that a timeline of the weekend’s events was still in the process of being pieced together. Firefighters remained on the scene near Robert J. Miller Airpark in Lacey Township on Sunday afternoon, the New Jersey Forest Fire Service said in aAt least 25 structures were threatened, though no injuries or deaths were immediately reported. The Lacey Township Police Department said that no evacuations in the area had been ordered as of Sunday afternoon.
The crash, which involved a single-engine Cirrus SR22, was reported around a small airpark in a neighboring township just after 10 p.m., according to the National Transportation Safety Board. The Federal Aviation Authority previously said the crash had occurred around 2:30 a.m. Sunday, with a local official later tellingthat emergency responders had been delayed in locating the plane, which went down in an isolated area.
Only the pilot was aboard the craft, which took off from Farmingdale, New Jersey, according to the FAA. Sources familiar with the incident told both
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