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,