A New Jersey man charged with starting the massive Jones Road wildfire last month says he shouldn’t be held responsible for the blaze because others who were with him should have snuffed it out.

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Joseph Kling, 19, who was charged with aggravated arson and arson in connection with a New Jersey wildfire, says he shouldn’t be held responsible for the blaze because others who were with him should have snuffed it out.

The wildfire, which was determined to be the second largest in New Jersey in the past 20 years, consumed more than 15,000 acres of the Pine Barrens.