Firefighters managed to contain a large brush fire in Brooklyn's Prospect Park Friday night, officials with the New York City Fire Department said. Four engine companies will remain on the scene ...

The FDNY battled an intense three-alarm apartment building fire at the Greenwood Arms complex in Howard Beach on Thursday ...

Firefighters have responded to more than 200 brush fires in the past two weeks, including nearly two dozen in Van Cortlandt ...

The task force, which will include fire marshals, fire protection inspectors and tactical drone units, will focus on rapid ...

The parks provide refuge for residents of a go-go-go city. But they also make the area more prone to brush fires during ...

Sunday, FDNY Commissioner Robert S. Tucker announced the creation of the FDNY’s first Brush Fire Task Force, comprised of ...

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 ...

Meanwhile in Queens, FDNY crews battled another brush fire that broke out at Alley Pond Park around 6:45 p.m. It went to a second alarm around 8:20 p.m., and was placed under control around 9:40 p ...

Kathy Hochul issued a statewide ban on outdoor burning through the end of the month, FDNY Fire Commissioner Robert ... are in effect through at least 6 p.m. Wednesday. The U.S. Drought Monitor ...