Authorities arrested the 19-year-old from Waretown, New Jersey, and charged him with arson and aggravated arson in the fire that’s still burning in southern New Jersey that they described as started with “an improperly extinguished bonfire.”

Authorities have charged a man with arson after they say he set wooden pallets on fire and failed to properly put them out in New Jersey's Pine Barrens, sparking an ongoing wildfire.

With near drought conditions, state forest fire officials reduced prescribed burns this spring and worried about “quite a fire season” ahead. A fast-moving wildfire on Tuesday triggered 3,000 evacuations and part closure of the Garden State Parkway.