It’ll take two to three days of rainfall to extinguish the ongoing brush fire at Woodland Acres. Until then, firefighters will continue to soak the perimeter to forbid it from spreading.
On Wednesday, more than 130 people logged into a informational meeting on Zoom regarding the weeks-long fire that’s still flaring.
"It looks like we got pretty solid containment,” attendees were told by Dave Celino, chief forest fire warden for the state Department of Conservation and Recreation. “But the fire isn’t going to go out any time soon until we get some sort of a tropical-related weather event that would give us about two to three inches of rain over a two- or three-day period. That’s really what we need to come out of this or to help us with the situation.” The fire started about two weeks ago and initially covered around two acres.