Firefighters across North Jersey and New York's Hudson Valley are still grappling with a massive, deadly wildfire burning across state lines.

The Jennings Creek Fire is 3000 acres, according to state officials, though New York estimates it's closer to 5000 acres and just 10% contained as of Monday afternoon.

Hundreds of firefighters are battling the blaze.

One, an 18 year old, died fighting the fire on New York's side of Sterling Forest.

The fire has threatened dozens of structures between West Milford in Passaic County and Greenwood Lake in New York.

Some local roads remain closed, as do hiking trails in the area.

West Milford leaders have declared a local state of emergency.

The fire has been burning since Friday evening, and while last night's rain offered some reprieve for exhausted firefighters, the blaze still remains active and dangerous.

Fire service officials today said the area's steep, rugged terrain has made it a tough fight, so it's making access to go fight the fire hard.

Hard to get equipment in there because some areas is too steep for bulldozers to go to.

So it is somebody on the ground digging fireline.

Choking on smoke and dust.

Trying to suppress this fire with manual labor and again, with limited water access.

We are relying on helicopters and miles of fire hose coming in again, being brought in by people hiking with, you know, 80 to 90 pounds of gear on their back.

The situation has raised fears for people living near Greenwood Lake and folks in Pompton Lakes who shared similar concerns over the weekend as that town faced a wildfire of its own.

Ted Goldberg was in West Milford today and has the latest on North Jersey's wildfires.

The Forest Fire Service is still getting a handle on the Jennings Creek wildfire in West Milford, which grew to 3000 acres over the weekend.

Mother nature pitched in a little bit as a quarter inch of rain overnight made things slightly easier for firefighters.

When you haven't had any rain essentially for six weeks and you get a quarter of an inch of rain over a six hour period, that's not even putting a Band-Aid on it.

That's giving you a short reprieve.

I don't think anyone's fooled by that.

State climatologist Dave Robinson says the rain wasn't enough to eliminate the multiple wildfires currently burning through new Jersey.

But every little bit helps the surface moistened up.

And with that, you know, all the debris, all the material that we've seen just ignite with the slightest of spark, maybe brings that hazard down a little bit today.

The Jennings Creek fire killed an 18 year old volunteer forest ranger in New York over the weekend, and Rockland Electric had to cut off electricity for about 900 people for a few hours so firefighters could better fight the flames.

We're working with the Red cross and other local volunteer agencies for, feeding and, rehab for the firefighters that are operating.

Michael Moscatello leads the Office of Emergency Management for West Milford.

He says nobody has been forced to evacuate, but around a dozen or so people left, with most of them coming back.

Muscatel says it's been a busy weekend, with many towns sending in crews for logistical support.

Over 50 departments municipalities have come in to assist from Bergen, Passaic, Hudson, Morris, Union, Essex County, Sussex County.

It's also been a busy weekend for the Forest Fire Service.

Heading to West Milford soon after, fully containing a fire in Pompton Lakes.

When I woke up that night, the whole house, just, like, reeked of smoke.

Of smoke.

And yeah, that's when I started feeling very concerned.

Mostly concerned for the Highland community.

That's like, right on the mountain top.

Resident Laura Arbelaez lives less than a mile from the Cannon Ball three wildfire which burned next to Cannonball Road.

I think for me, most concerning was just the amount of ash and smoke.

I woke up that morning to walk my dogs, as I usually do, and, I just could barely breathe.

I literally came out here and I took to my N95.

You can see, like, just everything was dark.

There was, like, ash from the mountain.

Just like coming down.

This fire grew to 181 acres.

But firefighters quick efforts ensured nobody had to evacuate here either.

I would say thank you to the New Jersey Forest Fire Service for all of their work.

And I was scared, and I don't I know that in the community we were we were very grateful for the updates, that we received.

She's not the only person saying thank you.

I put a call out to the guys who make donations, and we raised five over $500 in about an hour.

So I went this morning to shop right in town and spoke to the manager and bought whatever we can get for 500 bucks.

So far we have donated, a lot of cases of water and about 200 pizzas.

This firehouse in West Milford has taken donations from around the area to make sure firefighters stay hydrated and stay safe.

People could be losing their homes, and it's it's a necessity to help out.

If the community wasn't here, we would not be here.

Keeping the ground hydrated is a separate problem.

As Robinson says, the forecast does not look good for containing wildfires.

There's no rain in the forecast except potentially late week.

Some showers in the far south, but essentially through next weekend, we don't expect anything but sunny weather.

We need several soaking rain events in short order, in order for us to really be able to extinguish the fires.

Meanwhile, firefighters will continue to stay on the lookout as New Jersey's drought has kept them busy in Passaic County.

I'm Ted Goldberg, NJ Spotlight News.