The sparing of local residents and homes in this fire was no happy accident. Land use in this area of the state has long been guided by the Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan. That plan, created ...

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 ...

The wildfire, which was determined to be the second largest in New Jersey in the past 20 years, consumed more than 15,000 ...

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