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New Jersey health experts are studying respiratory impacts from wildfire smoke after the Jones Road fire burned 15,300 acres in the Pine Barrens and Canadian smoke events.
CHATSWORTH, N.J. (AP) — A fast-moving wildfire engulfing part of New Jersey's Pine Barrens has not resulted in any injuries, officials said Wednesday, though it's expected to grow before ...
MANCHESTER, N.J. — A fire that tore through 6 square miles of New Jersey's Pine Barrens this week is now fully contained, authorities said Thursday. Dry, windy conditions similar to those in New ...
Native Americans – the original land stewards of New Jersey – performed prescribed burns there. The Pine Barrens is a living testimony to thousands of years of evolution by fire.
The fire erupted on April 22 in Waretown — an unincorporated community on the Jersey Shore — and rapidly spread throughout the southern Ocean County area. The fire, determined to be the second largest ...
The fire, determined to be the second largest in New Jersey in the past 20 years, consumed more than 15,000 acres of the Pine Barrens and destroyed at least one building and multiple outbuildings ...