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The stretch of Tuckerton Road between Washington Turnpike and Carranza Road is closed, as is Bulldozer Road and multiple ...

Firefighters are making progress with the wildfire in the Pine Barrens section of southern Ocean County. Some 50% of the fire has been contained, the New Jersey Forest Fire Service said Wednesday ...

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 ...

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.

The New Jersey man charged with sparking a wildfire that ravaged parts of the Pine Barrens in Ocean County ... after the Cedar Bridge Fire Tower reported a large column of smoke in the area ...

A second person has been charged with arson in the wildfire in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens that has grown into the state’s second-largest fire in nearly two decades. Prosecutors said Friday that ...

New Jersey faced an increased risk of more wildfires Friday, just as the massive Pine Barrens blaze was finally 60% contained, having burned through an area about as big as Newark. Temperatures of ...

Second Person Charged With Arson in New Jersey Pine Barrens Fire A second person has been charged with arson in the wildfire in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens that has grown into the state’s second ...

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 ...