Fans of actress Meryl Streep, actor Paul Rudd and former Giants quarterback Phil Simms can cheer as the celebrities and an array of other New Jersey icons are inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame at the 16th Annual Induction Ceremony, airing this weekend on WWOR/My9.

The ceremony airs at 6 p.m. Sunday and can be viewed again on Dec. 28 and Dec. 29 on NJPBS. It will also stream on the Hall’s YouTube ad Facebook channels.

The event honors 21 of the Garden State’s most accomplished residents across six categories, including Arts & Letters Education & Science, Enterprise, Performing Arts & Entertainment, Public Service and Sports.

The induction event, hosted by actor Danny DeVito, drew celebrities to the newly opened New Jersey Hall of Fame Entertainment and Learning Center, where they recorded their award presentations and speeches.

NJ Hall of Fame inductees

This year’s inductees were chosen from pool of 50 after a public vote. This group joins more than 230 New Jersey natives who were inducted since the first class was named in 2008.

Streep, an actress who won three Academy Awards and eight Golden Globes and received a Presidential Medal of Freedom, is from Bernardsville. “My dreams were born in New Jersey and my imagination was nurtured in her public schools and for that, I am very grateful,” she said at the event.

See the full list of inductees here.

To qualify for the New Jersey Hall of fame, an inductee must have lived in New Jersey for at least five years. It is not necessary to have been born in New Jersey.

The 10,000 square foot center housing the New Jersey Hall of Fame is filled with interactive exhibits where visitors can experience space travel and sing on a karaoke stage with holograms of music legends like Frankie Valli and Gloria Gaynor. On the Hometown Tour exhibit, passengers climb into a classic car for a virtual reality tour through the hometowns of the New Jersey Hall of fame inductees.

Windy conditions renewed a wildfire that escaped a containtment line and prompted emergency officials to enact a voluntary evacation plan for a small number of houses in a community near the New York-New Jersey border on Saturday.

The voluntary evacuation enacted out of “an abundance of caution” impacted about 165 houses in Warwick, New York, as firefighters continued working to tame the Jennings Creek blaze, New York Parks Department spokesman Jeff Wernick said in an email Saturday night.

On Friday, the wildfire was 90% contained on the Passaic County, New Jersey, side of the border, and about 70% contained in Orange County, New York, officials said.

The wildfire had burned 7 1/2 square miles (19.4 square kilometers) across the two states as of Friday, although New York officials said that number was likely to increase as stronger winds were forecast for the weekend.

On Saturday, Wernick said New York Army National Guard helicopters dropped 21,000 gallons (79,493 liters) of water and a New York State Police helicopter dropped nearly 900 gallons (3,406 liters).

The fire was burning primarily in Sterling Forest State Park, where the visitor center, the lakefront area at Greenwood Lake and historic furnace area remained open but woodland activities including hunting were halted, Wernick said, noting residences around the lake have not been impacted.

A National Weather Service forecast for Warwick did not call for rain until Wednesday night. Firefighters previously said they will remain on the scene until significant rainfall occurs.

The blaze claimed the life of an 18-year-old New York parks employee who died when a tree fell on him as he helped fight the fire in Sterling Forest on Nov. 9.

The fire’s cause remains under investigation.

NEW JERSEY — Democratic U.S. Rep. Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey launched a long-expected campaign for governor Friday, pledging to make the state more affordable.

Gottheimer’s announcement comes just over week after he won reelection for a fourth term in the House in his northern New Jersey district, and he joins an already crowded field for the Democratic nomination in next year’s gubernatorial contest.

He announced his run at a diner in populous suburban Bergen County, which he partly represents. Acknowledging the state’s heavy tax burden and reflecting some of the themes that played out in the recent White House race, Gottheimer pinned his campaign to bringing down prices.

“I am running to be the lower taxes, lower costs governor,” he said. “Life in Jersey has become too damn expensive.”

Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy’s second term expires after next year’s election, and he is barred by term limits from running again.

Also seeking the Democratic nomination to be governor are Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop, teachers union president Sean Spiller and former Senate President Steve Sweeney.

Republicans are also lining up to run. Among them are state Sen. Jon Bramnick, former state legislator Jack Ciattarelli, former state Sen. Ed Durr and radio host Bill Spadea.

Gottheimer, a former speechwriter for Bill Clinton and adviser to the head of the Federal Communications Commission, toppled conservative Republican Rep. Scott Garrett in 2016. He has since become known as a more moderate member of Congress, co-chairing the Problem Solvers Caucus with Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, of Pennsylvania. He is also known as a prolific campaign fundraiser.

If Gottheimer has to resign his House seat, state law calls for the governor to call a special election to fill the vacancy if the seat opens up 70 days before the election.

New Jersey and Virginia are the only states with races for governor next year.