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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 ...

So, when I was 22, I took every New York City civil service exam available. The first one to call me was FDNY Emergency Medical Service (EMS), which at the time was NYC Health + Hospital’s NYC EMS.

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 ...