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, ...

Burn bans and drought watches have been announced throughout New York State counties as responders fight widespread wildfires ...

Adding to the chaos of drought-fueled wildfires in the Northeast, smoke from blazes in Connecticut has stopped Amtrak rail service between New York City and New Haven. READ MORE ABOUT NORTHEAST ...

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 ...

Wildfires are rarer in North Jersey and the southern part of New York than other regions, but a record dry spell has put all ...

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.

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

Prospect Park was reopened to visitors on Saturday ... according to the New Jersey Forest Fire Service, while other fires ...