As the Jones Road wildfire raged through the heart of the Pine Barrens on April 22, a Waretown man found himself trapped in ...

Jared Simons’ heart is pounding. His muscles are tight. His nerves are shot. He kneels over a cinder block fire pit and drops ...

The New Jersey man charged with sparking a wildfire that ravaged parts of Ocean County attempted to deny responsibility, blaming it instead on two “Mexicans” he could not name, police ...

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

A second teenager is accused of sparking the massive wildfire in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens. A 17 year-old boy was charged ...

A 17-year-old male became the second person charged in the Jones Road Wildfire that consumed massive amounts of Pine Barrens ...

The state Forest Fire Service said the blaze in southern New Jersey's Ocean County had grown to nearly 24 square miles (62 square kilometers) but was 75% contained. No deaths or injuries have been ...

Burning over 15,000 acres of land, the wildfire has had significant consequences within the state and beyond, affecting air quality as far as New York City.

The Jones Road Fire tore through over 15,300 acres of drought-stricken Pine Barrens—leaving a smoky scar visible from space.

Forecasters are warning of low humidity and gusty wind increased the risk fire could spread across parts of New Jersey, Philadelphia and its suburbs and Delaware as firefighters continued to battled a ...

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.