FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker announced the creation of the department's first Brush Fire Task Force on Sunday, which will be comprised of fire marshals, inspectors and tactical drone units.

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.

The FDNY responded to a crash that occurred just after 12:15 p.m. in the Brooklyn-bound lanes of the expressway. According to a spokesman for the department, one person was transported to Staten ...

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 ...

The FDNY responded to 229 brush fires between Oct. 29 and Nov. 12, marking the highest number recorded in a two-week period in city history, FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker said. The Bronx ...

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 ...

Dry conditions lead to two separate fires in a Manhattan park Wednesday within 15 minutes of each other. The fires tore through about 3.5 acres of land in Inwood Hill Park, according to officials.

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 ...

Kathy Hochul issued a statewide ban on outdoor burning through the end of the month, FDNY Fire Commissioner Robert ... New Jersey to Fire Island Inlet until 1 p.m. Wednesday and, to Montauk ...