Parks department data shows firefighters responded to more than 400 fires in city parks between 2020 and August 2024.

New York has urged its 8.5 million residents to save water as America's biggest city endures an unprecedented period without ...

New York has urged its 8.5 million residents to save water during an unprecedented period without significant rainfall, ...

A volunteer firefighter was arrested and charged after allegedly setting a brush fire on Long Island, New York, on Tuesday.

Forest fires in New York City are nearly unprecedented. None have been recorded in Prospect Park in recent history, and while ...

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 ...

In Brooklyn’s Prospect Park on Sunday, onlookers gawked at a charred hilltop, where newly fallen leaves had already obscured the scorched earth of Friday’s 2-acre brushfire. Some respected two “Do Not ...

Wildfires in New Jersey and New York are part of a growing trend of increased fire weather in the Northeast U.S. Here's how.

As efforts to battle a wildfire on the New Jersey/New York border continue, much of southern New York is now under a red flag warning, pointing to a heightened risk of additional fires. The Jennings ...

Rainfall did little to slow a wildfire burning on the border of New York and New Jersey on Monday, officials said, as strong ...

Wildfires brought on by extreme dry conditions have left parts of the East Coast in a dangerous haze this weekend.

A Rockland County teen has become the first casualty of the ongoing Jennings Creek wildfire that is blazing its way along the New York-New Jersey line. New York State Parks aide Dariel Vasquez, 18, ...