Crazy New Jersey Brush Fires Fill Manhattan With Smoke, Shut Down Amtrak

By ERIC KIEFER

MANHATTAN, NY — Brush fires in two separate New Jersey neighborhoods sent a cloud of thick, black smoke toward Manhattan Tuesday afternoon.

NYC Emergency Management officials warned around 1 p.m. that "due to a fire in New Jersey, residents of New York City may see or smell smoke."

And by 1:30 p.m., "due to a brush fire in New Jersey, Amtrak train service has been suspended in both directions between New Jersey and Penn Station" in Manhattan, officials said.

One of the fires, in Secaucus, started near Secaucus Road and Penhorn Avenue around 12:30 p.m., NJ.com reported.

The Kearny fire — located off Harrison Avenue near I-280 and the New Jersey Turnpike — may have restarted and gone to a third alarm around 12:45 p.m., NJ.com stated.

According to a Kearny Fire Department, units were sent to combat a brush fire on Harrison Avenue.

“Fire is on both sides of the highway,” the KFD stated.

For updates on the fire, keep checking in with our New Jersey Patch sites.

Top photo courtesy of the Kearny Fire Department