It was a tense week for residents near the Jennings Creek wildfire. They lived in fear the fire would take their homes.

Residents in the northern part of Wayne Township may continue to see smoke from a fire burning in West Milford, police said. The blaze, which has become known as the Jennings Creek Wildfire, stretches the New York-New Jersey border and has reached 3,

“We're not talking a rain shower or something,” Donnelly said. “We're talking inches of rain - a nice, slow, steady rain that can penetrate the ground. Because right now, the ground is so hard that you get a heavy shower, something's just going to run off the ground.”

Several wildfires, including fires in Pompton Lakes and West Milford, continue to burn across New Jersey on Sunday morning.

The most recently reported blaze is the Jennings Creek wildfire near Greenwood Lake Turnpike and East Shore Road in West Milford. The New Jersey Forest Fire Service first reported it around 2:15 p.m. Saturday.