Roads are closed around the Black Run Preserve in New Jersey's Evesham Township as a brush fire burns Thursday.The fire, which has been named the Bethany Run wildfire, is about 200 acres in size and was 0% contained as of Thursday afternoon.

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The fire in Jackson, in the central portion of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, had grown to less than half a square mile (1.2 square kilometers) and was 40% contained as of mid-morning Thursday, said Deale Carey, incident commander for the fire service.

It was smaller than the three others burning in New Jersey, each of which had burned less than a square mile as of late Thursday. Those fires, in Jackson, Glassboro and Evesham, were between 50% and 80% contained Friday. The Englewood Cliffs fire was 30% ...

Firefighters in New Jersey are stretched even thinner as yet another wildfire burns in bone-dry conditions in the state