Joseph Kling, 19, was charged with arson and aggravated arson in connection with the wildfire that started in Waretown (Ocean ...

Authorities say a man set wooden pallets on fire and failed to properly put them out in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens, sparking a ...

A 19-year-old suspect is facing arson charges in the Jones Road Fire, one of the largest wildfires in New Jersey in the last ...

A 19-year-old faces arson charges in connection to a southern New Jersey wildfire that has scorched at least 15,000 acres and ...

A 19-year-old man has been charged with arson in connection with a massive wildfire that torched thousands of acres of ...

Authorities arrested the 19-year-old from Waretown, New Jersey, and charged him with arson and aggravated arson in the fire that’s still burning in southern New Jersey that they described as ...

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WARETOWN, N.J. (WPVI) -- A man has been charged with arson after being accused of purposefully starting a fire that erupted into the massive Jones Roads Wildfire in Ocean County, New Jersey.

A 19-year-old man was charged with arson after he failed to ... pallets but left without ensuring the fire was extinguished. The fire in southern New Jersey is the second-largest fire in the ...

has been charged with aggravated arson and arson. Investigators determined that the fire was caused by an improperly extinguished bonfire, the New Jersey Forest Fire Service said in a statement.