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

Authorities arrested the 19-year-old from Waretown, New Jersey, and charged him with arson and aggravated arson in the fire ...

Watch New Jersey officials give an update on the Pine Barrens fire in the player above. The fire in southern New Jersey’s Lacey and Ocean townships grew to roughly 19 square miles (49 square ...

N.J. -- Three-fourths of a vast wildfire in New Jersey's Pine Barrens has been contained, state officials said Monday. The state Forest Fire Service said the blaze in southern New Jersey's Ocean ...

Though large tracts of the Pine Barrens are uninhabited, New Jersey is the nation’s most densely populated state and officials have warned the fire could threaten developments nearby.

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Wildfire in New Jersey Pine Barrens Expected to Grow Before It's ... though it's expected to grow before forecast rain later this week. The fire in southern New Jersey's Lacey and Ocean townships ...

A man set wooden pallets on fire and failed to properly put them out in New Jersey's Pine Barrens, sparking a quick-moving wildfire with smoke affecting the air quality in the New York City area ...

The fire in southern New Jersey’s Lacey and Ocean townships ... Forest fires are a common occurrence in the Pine Barrens, a 1.1 million-acre (445,000-hectare) state and federally protected ...

The Garden State Parkway, one of New Jersey’s busiest highways ... authorities said. Forest fires are a common occurrence in the Pine Barrens, a 1.1 million-acre state and federally protected ...