Fire causes evacuations, shuts down parkway

Monday, June 3, 2002

BERKELEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- A forest fire burned across more than 1,000 acres near a state park on Sunday, threatening hundreds of homes and shutting down a 24-mile stretch of one of the state's busiest highways.

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