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Firefighters battled a bushfire in Manhattan’s Inwood Hill Park through the night Wednesday as two additional blazes ignited at other city parks amid a record-shattering dry spell in the Big Apple.

A massive brush fire exacerbated by the city’s ongoing drought destroyed about 4 acres of Manhattan’s Inwood Hill Park, FDNY officials said Thursday. The raging blaze, which began at about 3 p ...

INWOOD, Manhattan -- The FDNY is battling an extensive brush fire that erupted in Inwood Hill Park in Manhattan on Wednesday afternoon. Two fires reportedly ignited around 3 p.m. and spread ...

New York City’s ongoing drought has sparked a record 215 brush fires in just the past two weeks, FDNY officials said Wednesday. The number of brush fires this year was significantly higher than ...

The FDNY has responded to 229 brush fires in the city in the last two weeks, the highest ever in a two-week period. Overnight, firefighters were battling a wildfire in Upper Manhattan. FOX 5 NY's ...

One day after Gov. Kathy Hochul issued a statewide ban on outdoor burning through the end of the month, FDNY Fire Commissioner Robert S. Tucker reminded New Yorkers to be aware of the threat of ...

The FDNY battled an intense three-alarm apartment building fire at the Greenwood Arms complex in Howard Beach on Thursday morning. The first calls were received at around 11:20 a.m. after a fire ...