Residents of Edgemere Avenue in Warwick, Orange County, are being encouraged to evacuate their homes Saturday after flames from the Jennings Creek wildfire, primarily located in Sterling Forest State Park, jumped containment lines and inched closer to a residential area.

Winds caused the massive fire to escape its containment lines near Edgemere Avenue in Warwick, which initially prompted 35 homes to evacuate voluntarily, according to New York Department of Environmental Conservation spokesperson Jeff Wernick. Later ...