Harris department store, 1982
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Tuckerton Forest Fire, 1982
Philadelphia Inquirer 24 Apr 1982 As firefighters contained three fires that have ravaged nearly 6,000 acres of the Pinelands in South Jersey since Thursday afternoon, state investigators began searching yesterday for clues in the blazes they believe were deliberately set." The timing and location of the fires make them of suspicious origin," said Jim Staples of the state Environmental Protection Department. " That's all we have to go on. No one saw anyone lighting matches." Joseph Hughes, the principal forester for the office of the state fire warden, said units of arson experts trained in investigating forest fires began working yesterday afternoon on the fires in Burlington and Ocean Counties. He said that by tracing the trail of a fire, investigators sometimes find its starting point and that sometimes " they can even trace it back to a match they find on the ground." As of yesterday, Hughes said, the investigators had no clues or suspects, thoug