It was a tense week for residents near the Jennings Creek wildfire. They lived in fear the fire would take their homes.

Crews have been stationed along East Shore Road in West Milford, near the Monksville Reservoir and in the remote terrain near the New York state border to prevent the spread, said Chris Franek, an assistant division fire warden with the New Jersey Forest ...

Residents in the northern part of Wayne Township may continue to see smoke from a fire burning in West Milford, police said. The blaze, which has become known as the Jennings Creek Wildfire, stretches the New York-New Jersey border and has reached 3,

“We're not talking a rain shower or something,” Donnelly said. “We're talking inches of rain - a nice, slow, steady rain that can penetrate the ground. Because right now, the ground is so hard that you get a heavy shower, something's just going to run off the ground.”

Fire Company 4 of the West Milford Fire Department is currently seeking supplies to aid emergency personnel responding to the Jennings Creek Wildfire in West Milford. As of Sunday morning, the New Jersey Forest Fire Service said, the Jennings Creek ...