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.
The Somerset County town where Donald Trump spends a good chunk of time at his golf club has been dealing with years of weekend protesters, four miles down the road.
Authorities say a man from Ocean County has been sentenced for unlawfully possessing a privately manufactured short-barrel rifle and having numerous fake badges of various federal agencies.
A grand jury has declined to hand up charges against a State Police trooper who ultimately shot and killed an unarmed 28-year-old New York man in a confrontation along the Garden State Parkway two years ago.