A second person has been charged with arson in the wildfire in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens that has grown into the state’s ...

1:40 New Jersey wildfire: 19-year-old arrested as firefighters battle blaze that has destroyed more than 15,000 acres Police allege Joseph Kling, 19, of Waretown, N.J. of setting a bonfire using ...

CHATSWORTH, New Jersey (WABC) -- The massive Ocean County wildfire could become the largest wildfire in New Jersey in decades. Police arrested and charged 19-year-old Joseph Kling with aggravated ...

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A wildfire in New Jersey appears to be about half contained as flames continue to burn on Friday, after forcing thousands of residents to evacuate and previously affecting air quality as far north ...

A 19-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of starting a massive New Jersey wildfire that has consumed at least 15,200 acres and continued to burn Thursday afternoon, authorities said.

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The Jones Road Wildfire in the New Jersey Pinelands allegedly was started by an Ocean County man who lit wood pallets and left them without fully extinguishing them, authorities said Thursday.

As a huge wildfire continues to burn in central New Jersey on April 24, smoke from the blaze is expected to reach residents in New York City some 60 miles away, prompting an air quality alert.

New Jersey has a million acres filled with towering pitch pines. It’s springtime and the trees stand straight, bare and bonelike, above a carpet of winter needles that worry state fire service ...