NJ wildfire updates: Blaze nearly triples in size, only 10% contained

Thousands evacuated as wildfire sweeps through New Jersey

Officials said no injuries had been reported while confirming the cause of the blaze is still being investigated.

NJ Wildfire updates: Smoke from Ocean County fire expected to impact Tri-State area

All evacuation orders lifted. Residents are free to return to homes, police say. The Garden State Parkway and Route 9 have also reopened in both directions as of Wednesday morning

New Jersey wildfire forces evacuations and reaches closed nuclear power plant

Stretch of major highway shut as 3,000 people moved to safety and homes left without powerA fast-moving wildfire burning in New Jersey has forced thousands of people to evacuate, closed a stretch of a main highway and reached a shuttered nuclear power plant.Flames from the Jones Road wildfire in Ocean County had reached buildings on the campus of the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant, according to the local Lakewood Scoop newspaper. Continue read…

NJ wildfire updates: Blaze nearly triples in size, only 10% contained

OCEAN TOWNSHIP, N.J. (PIX11) – An aggressive wildfire in southern New Jersey forced the evacuations of roughly 3,000 people on Tuesday, according to the New Jersey Forest Fire Service. New Jersey Lt. Gov. Tahesha Way declared a state of emergency on Wednesday amid the ongoing Jones Road wildfire in the Greenwood Forest Wildlife Management Area […]

Raging 8.500-acre New Jersey wildfire forces evacuation of thousands

More than 3,000 people are under evacuation orders and 13,000 people are without power

NJ wildfire prompts thousands of ordered evacuations as it explodes in size, closes part of Garden State Parkway

As of Tuesday afternoon, the Jones Road Fire burning near Barnegat, New Jersey had consumed 1,200 acres and was uncontrolled. Part of the Garden State Parkway is closed near Waretown.