Controlled burns are underway to help fight the fire. One of them was started in the area of Fairview Street and Silk Road.

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 ...

Bureau of Forestry and local fire crews have been tackling the blaze on Bear Mountain along the Lehigh River on the ground and from the air.