The National Weather Service issued a special statement Sunday warning about the elevated risk of wildfires spreading in some New Jersey counties.

Windy conditions renewed a wildfire that escaped a containment line and prompted emergency officials to enact a voluntary evacuation plan for a small number of houses in a community near the New York–New Jersey border on Saturday.

Firefighters in New York say a voluntary evacuation has helped them protect about 165 homes from a wildfire as officials in much of the Northeast cope with hundreds of brush

New Jersey Forest Fire Service ground and fire engine crew members are responding to the raging Hainesport blaze.

A wildfire in Burlington County named ‘Big Rusty’ is about 20 percent contained as of Monday evening as crews will continue to tackle it in the days to follow.

A wildfire burning in Hainesport Burlington County closed roads and threatened homes Monday into Tuesday. The New Jersey Forest Fire Service first responded to the so-called Big Rusty Wildfire in the area of Bancroft Lane and Cove Court in Hainesport,