Video from CNN affiliate WBOC showed smoke rising from brush fires in the unpopulated area.

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Forest or brush fires usually only reach temperatures of around 300 degrees Celsius.

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It could also help douse anti-Net brush fires that have sprung up at state and county levels in the months since the bill was signed.

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Meanwhile, roughly 300 acres of the Pinelands in Burlington County were consumed by brush fires in New Jersey, according to the state Department of Environmental Protection.

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Yet, in November of 1991, a team of fire investigators had inspected fifty houses in the hills of Oakland, California, which had been ravaged by brush fires.

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There are lots of lawyers and compliance employees at major firms such as Wells Fargo, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, and UBS, who spend much of their day putting out small customer complaint brush fires to avoid larger conflagrations.

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