People north of New York City and in northern New Jersey are being warned about more smoke Thursday due to the Jennings Creek Fire, which is burning along the New Jersey and New York border. Meanwhile,

The state Department of Environmental Conservation said the Jennings Creek brush fire was 20% contained as it entered its fifth day

Efforts to contain the Jennings Creek Wildfire continued Wednesday with a new set of challenges on its sixth day near the New Jersey-New York border.

A volunteer firefighter on Long Island, New York, was arrested Tuesday after he intentionally started a brush fire, authorities said. Jonathan Quiles, of the Medford Fire Department, set a fire in a wooded area on Mount Vernon Avenue in Medford on Tuesday afternoon, Suffolk County police alleged in a news release.