The Packerton Fire, which is also known as the Jim Thorpe Fire or Bear Mountain Fire, set 426 acres ablaze and is 15% ...

The fire had reached 460 acres as of Monday, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.

Officials with the Department of Natural Resources say what a difference a day makes the smoke has cleared in many parts of ...

Crews have contained nearly all of a brush fire that started over the weekend near Bear Mountain in Carbon County. The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and National Resource’s Bureau of ...

Fire crews are working to protect residential areas as the blaze burns within a quarter-mile of homes along Lehigh Gorge, ...

Ruth Ann Bramich’s husband Mike woke her at 11 p.m. Sunday as flames from the wildfire were getting too close for comfort to their Silk Street home. They called 9-1-1 and started to hose down the ...

Firefighting crews from across the state have converged on what is now a wildfire burning on a mountainside near Jim Thorpe.

The PA Bureau of Forestry Incident Management team sent an update on day five of the large wildfire near Jim Thorpe in Carbon ...

JIM THORPE, Pa. – Monday night closed out day three of a large brush fire in the Jim Thorpe area. Officials say it broke out ...

With the wildfire going on, a nonprofit called Save Carbon County is handing out purple air quality monitors to people in Jim ...

Crews continue to battle the wildfire in the Jim Thorpe area. It is now 66% contained after burning 560 acres.

State fire crews planned to use drones Monday to battle a sweeping 460-acre fire that flared up Saturday afternoon in Carbon ...