A 14-year-old boy faces arson charges for allegedly starting a wildfire in New Jersey amid drought conditions in the region, police said. The forest fire ignited on Oct. 30 in Evesham Township and ...

Months of unusually dry weather and a burst of forest fires have slowed efforts to complete one of New Jersey's most important wildfire prevention tasks: prescribed burns. Officials with the New ...

Firefighters in New Jersey were battling a wildfire Monday that had burned more than 1,000 acres in less than a day, officials said. The fire was spotted at about 4 p.m. Sunday in a forested area on ...

The spring wildfire season is here, reports the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, which considers the peak of the season to run from mid-March to mid-May, when trees and underbrush ...