Since breaking out on Tuesday in the Pine Barrens, the fire has forced the evacuation of 5,000 residents of Ocean and Lacey Township. No injuries had been reported as of Saturday. In its latest update ...

New Jersey firefighters are confident the wildfire burning for days in Ocean County​ will be fully contained over the weekend ...

Crews in Ocean County, New Jersey, are making progress containing a wildfire that has burned thousands of acres this week.

The New Jersey Forest Fire Service is continuing their efforts to extinguish the fire that has consumed more than 15,000 acres.

There are still four structures threatened by the fire, but all evacuations are lifted for the approximately 5,000 residents who evacuated on Tuesday.

The resulting fire forced 5,000 people to flee their homes, shut down the Garden State Parkway and Route 9, and plunged the ...

Joseph Kling, 19, of Waretown, has been charged with arson after starting a bonfire that sparked a 15,000 acre wildfire that ...

Joseph Kling, 19, was charged with arson and aggravated arson in connection with the wildfire that started in Waretown (Ocean ...

A Waretown man has been charged with arson in connection with the Jones Roads Wildfire in Ocean County, New Jersey.

Officials said the fire is believed to be the second-worst in the last two decades, smaller only than a 2007 blaze that ...

A New Jersey man was arrested in connection with sparking the 15,000-acre fire that has burned for three days straight in Ocean County, just miles from the Jersey Shore.

Volunteers came from as far away as Delaware and New York to help evacuate animals in peril from the Jones Road Wildfire in Ocean County.