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.m.
The New York City fire department has responded to 229 brush fires from October 29 to Nov. 12, a record for any two-week ...
The Inwood Hill Park fire is the latest in an unusually high number of fires in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut amid dry conditions and gusty winds.