Fire engines, helicopters and ground crews were being used to try to contain the blaze, which has been dubbed the Mines Sprung Wildfire.

The fire erupted on April 22 in Waretown — an unincorporated community on the Jersey Shore — and rapidly spread throughout the southern Ocean County area.

Joseph Kling, the Waretown man accused of starting the Jones Road wildfire, speaks with the media after an early disposition conference before Superior Court Judge Guy P. Ryan at the Ocean County ...

TOMS RIVER, NJ — A New Jersey man accused of sparking a massive wildfire in central New Jersey in April denied responsibility for the blaze, saying other people with him should have extinguished the ...

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 ...

Two people — 19-year-old Joseph Kling of Waretown, New Jersey, and a 17-year-old who has not been identified — have been charged with starting the blaze. Kling faces arson and aggravated arson ...

Two days after the wildfire began, 19-year-old Joseph Kling of Waretown, New Jersey, was arrested and charged with arson in connection to the fire. Investigators said Kling set wooden pallets on ...

The wildfire was first spotted around 9:45 a.m. on April 22, when the Cedar Bridge Fire Tower located a column of smoke coming from the area of Jones Road and Bryant Road in Waretown, Billhimer said.

The detention hearing for a Waretown man charged with arson in the wildfire that has destroyed more than 15,000 acres in southern Ocean County was delayed Tuesday.

The Jones Road Wildfire was first spotted at approximately 9:45 a.m. on April 22 in the Greenwood Wildlife Management area in Waretown, New Jersey, officials said.

Prosecutors on Thursday said Joseph Kling, 19, from Waretown, New Jersey, was arrested and charged with arson and aggravated arson, saying he lit wooden pallets on fire and left the area before they ...

Prosecutors on Thursday said Joseph Kling, 19, from Waretown, New Jersey, was arrested and charged with arson and aggravated arson, saying he lit wooden pallets on fire and left the area before ...