MIDDLETON, Mass. — It is the largest wildfire still burning in Massachusetts, and if the next few days shape up as forecast, the Middleton Pond Fire will likely not go out anytime soon.
“We have concerns over the conditions coming in tomorrow,” said David Celino, chief forest fire warden for the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR). “With a front that’s coming through overnight it is looking more and more like it’s not going to produce much precipitation.”
That would be, for Massachusetts, the same old song. Since meteorological fall began in September, scant rainfall has fallen over the state — so little that eastern Massachusetts is now considered to be in severe drought…