Forest fire in South Jersey fully contained
Ross DiMattei reports.
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The road is closed from Forge Road to Warren Grove Spur Road. The fire was first spotted around noon and it has grown to 125 acres.
Kerri Corrado reports.
A wind-whipped forest fire is burning out of control in Little Egg Harbor Township.
Officials say a large blaze that burned roughly 300 acres near New Jersey's Wharton State Forest in Burlington County, New Jersey has been completely contained.
Authorities say the fire is burning near Dingletown and Bards Bridge Roads off Route 206 in Shamong Township.
The fire is currently burning with 35 percent containment, according to the New Jersey Forest Fire Service.
Crews were able to keep the blaze inside the perimeter, officials say.
The fires, which were two of four that broke out in South Jersey last week, burned more than 500 acres of forest.
Another forest fire broke out Sunday morning at Wharton State Park.
Shortly after firefighting crews gained control over four blazes burning in central and southern New Jersey, a new fire broke out Friday.
New Jersey forestry fire officials are monitoring a forest fire in a remote section of the Edward Bevan Wildlife and Fishing area in rural Cumberland County.
The fire broke out around 3 p.m. on Wednesday just off Ackley Road in Downe Township.
New Jersey is on the verge of approving more controlled burns of underbrush on forest floors.
Crews have contained a forest fire in a remote section of southern New Jersey's Hamilton Township, west of Atlantic City.
Crews are battling a forest fire in a remote section of southern New Jersey's Hamilton Township, west of Atlantic City.
A forest fire that has consumed more than 200 acres in southern New Jersey has been contained.
Crews have contained about half of a 200-plus acre fire that continues to burn deep in the Wharton State Forest in South Jersey.
A forest fire in Camden County is under investigation Thursday evening.
Smoke continues to billow in the air over Barnegat Township where a wildfire near Barnegat Blvd gets doused with water from helicopters. Officials say it is no longer a threat to homes
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Dozens of firefighters are battling a blaze in the Wharton State Forest in Burlington County, NJ.
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