The air quality alert comes as emergency responders work to contain the Jones Road wildfire in New Jersey. A Thursday morning update from the New Jersey Forest Fire Service said the blaze had burned some 13,250 acres and was at 50 percent containment.

As the Jones Road wildfire continues to burn down in Ocean County, smoke from the fire continues to spread in the atmosphere, impacting air quality for areas downwind of the fire. And as the wind direction shifts,

American Lung Association report gave failing grades to Philadelphia and parts of South Jersey, including Gloucester, Mercer and Ocean counties.

A fast-growing wildfire was burning in New Jersey's Pinelands near its Atlantic Ocean beach towns on Wednesday and threatened to become the largest in the state in nearly 20 years, officials said on Wednesday.

A massive wildfire continued to burn in New Jersey on Wednesday, spanning over 8,500 acres and prompting the evacuation of 3,000 people, which snarled traffic and sent huge plumes of black smoke billowing into the sky.

A fast-moving wildfire in New Jersey expanded to 8,500 acres Tuesday afternoon, causing over 3,000 evacuations and threatening more than 1,300 structures while also closing a portion of the Garden State Parkway in the southern portion of the state.