well the unusually hot dry weather conditions we're under have made it a tough week for the spread of wildfires but firefighters are gaining control of a wildfire off Route 23 in West Milford it spread to 400 Acres but was 40 percent contained as of this afternoon it's the largest fire in North Jersey has seen in more than a decade the state forest fire service says no structures are threatened Route 23 is Back open but Echo Lake Road that remains closed that's where firefighters are staging to attack the blaze a much larger Wildfire about a hundred miles south in Ocean County is now a hundred percent contained authorities say the Jimmy's Waterhole fire burned a little over 3 800 acres of land there New Jersey is in the peak of its traditional Wildfire season which runs through May the risk is increased though with temperatures hitting record highs and no rain in the forecast until at least Saturday so just want everybody to be aware that um extreme fire is is Extreme fire but it's it performs differently in the Southern Pine Forest as compared to here in the oak fire Oak Hickory Forest of the North [Music]