The Massachusetts National Guard confirmed that the fire, which originated as part of a routine forest fire mitigation effort, spread beyond the designated burn area but remained contained within the ...

The Forest Fire Service received assistance from the New Jersey Army National Guard, which provided two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, capable of dropping 660 gallons of water each. Joseph Kling, 19, ...

New Jersey State Forest Fire Service, Whiting, Forked River, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, and others. Paramedics from Robert Wood Johnson and additional emergency agencies also assisted at the ...

BARNEGAT TOWNSHIP — A forest ... New Jersey’s largest fire in recent decades, a 2007 blaze in Ocean County touched off by National Guard bombing target practice in bone-dry conditions at a ...

BARNEGAT TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — A wildfire burning in New Jersey on Tuesday forced ... open at a church and high school. The fire in the Greenwood Forest Wildlife Management Area burned more ...

Lisa Franchetti, chief of naval operations; and the judge advocates general—essentially the top lawyers—of the Army ... in New York; Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey; Homestead ...

More: Army paratrooper Nicholas ... and no threat to the base or the community. Watch the video below for a look at the aftermath of the Penn State Forest fire. The fire, initially reported ...

The unmanned flying objects have been seen over New Jersey ... five area hospitals and U.S. Forest Service operations during fire season, officials say. The base uses a "5 mile rule," according ...

New Jersey authorities have insisted that sightings of SUV-size drones for the past several weeks do not present a threat to public safety, but military analysts say the lack of clear answers from ...

The voluntary evacuation plan was put in place in areas affected by the Jennings Creek wildfire. Officials encouraged residents of 165 homes to move out temporarily. By Chelsia Rose Marcius New ...

The fire burned 52 acres though no structures were damaged, police said. A 14-year-old boy faces arson charges for allegedly starting a wildfire in New Jersey amid drought conditions in the region ...

Two Chinook and two Blackhawk helicopters from New York's Army ... Jersey side of the wildfire fight, the blaze was 75% contained as of 7:45 p.m. Thursday, according to the New Jersey Forest Fire ...