The voluntary evacuation plan was put in place in areas affected by the Jennings Creek wildfire. Officials encouraged residents of 165 homes to move out temporarily.

New York issued a voluntary evacuation order over the weekend for some residents near the border with New Jersey as the Jennings Creek wildfire, fanned by gusty winds, pushed past a containment line.Residents in roughly 165 homes in two communities around Warwick,

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.

The Jennings Creek wildfire burning on the New York-New Jersey border is now 88% contained, officials said Friday.