A wildfire has erupted in a part of Wharton State Forest in Shamong Township, the New Jersey Forest Fire Service says.

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 ...

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 ...

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