Miles south of West Milford, light winds blowing from the north Friday morning pushed some plumes of smoke down into parts of Essex, Union, Somerset, Middlesex and Monmouth counties, according to data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Firefighters are getting closer to taming a wildfire burning across the New Jersey-New York border, increasing their encirclement of the hard-to-access blaze.

Firefighters say they are making progress against wildfires burning in the border between New York and New Jersey.

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.

Firefighters are slowly making progress in their battle against a wildfire at the border of New Jersey and New York.