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A 34-acre wildfire that burned through a wooded area near the Delaware Water Gap is now 100% contained, officials said. The fire, which broke out in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area and Worthington State Forest in Warren County on Tuesday, was contained by Wednesday at around 8 p.m., according to the state Forest Fire Service. In the agency’s previous update at 11 a.m., the blaze was 75% contained. The forest went up in flames around 4 p.m. on Tuesday and had only spread to five acres in the Forest Fire Service’s Tuesday afternoon announcement. By Tuesday night, it had grown to …

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