You likely heard a second arrest has been made in the Jones Road wildfire. It made all the national news broadcasts, with one station claiming the wildfire was still burning – as if N.J. allows massive wildfires to just eventually burn themselves out.
The second person arrested is underage, 17-something. Authorities won’t reveal his name, though it will likely come out in the legal wash.
I’ll use the still-smoldering Jones Road inferno to make an odd segue into what I consider the most insidious of all biting bugs – speaking of gnats, commonly known locally as no-see-ums, technically…
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