The NJ Forest Fire Service warned residents around the Jones Road Wildfire area about a scam in which door-to-door “salesmen” offer a program to eliminate the smell of smoke from their home.
The fire has burned through nearly 24 sq. miles (15,250 acres) and is 60% contained as of Friday morning, according to the New Jersey Forest Fire Service.
The wildfire is already the largest wildfire in New Jersey this year at 13.2 square miles (8,500 acres) burned but only 10% contained as of Wednesday morning.
An Ocean County mother was killed and her three children hurt, one critically, when a pick-up truck collided head-on with their minivan, Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Lori Linskey announced Friday.
A Mercer County man was arrested Tuesday in Ocean County by members of two separate drug strike forces who found a cache of marijuana and vaporizer cartridges filled with marijuana concentrate.