NY wildfire breaks through, 160 homes evacuated as blazes keep Northeast at risk
The National Weather Service issued a special statement Sunday warning about the elevated risk of wildfires spreading in some ...
FDNY creates task force amid record number of brush fires in NYC
The significant increase in brush fires in New York City has led the FDNY to establish its first Brush Fire Task Force. The ...
Residents Evacuated Because of Fire on New York-New Jersey Border
The voluntary evacuation plan was put in place in areas affected by the Jennings Creek wildfire. Officials encouraged ...
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FDNY Commissioner announces new Brush Fire Task Force amid recent wildfires in New York City
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.
No new red flag warnings, but fire danger persists throughout Northeast
For the first time in days, the Northeast was under no red flag warnings, but officials cautioned that fire danger in the ...
40 million people under red flag warnings in the Northeast due to fire danger
Red flag warnings are in effect across eight states, including nearly 43 million people in the northeast as fire danger ...
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Major wildfire on NY-NJ border mostly contained but still an emergency, officials say
The Jennings Creek wildfire was 90% contained in Jersey and 69% contained in New York, according to authorities.
FDNY has battled record number of brush fires in NYC
Neighbors and visitors to parks in New York City are watching the grounds and scanning the skies.  Where there’s smoke, there are firefighters.  The FDNY reported ...
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Will We Always Have Manhattan Brush Fires? That’s A Climate-Fueled Threat.
Doug McIntyre reports on an alarming three-alarm brush fire in Manhattan that required more than 150 firefighters to extinguish. The fire underscores a worsening drought in New York City and its ...
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Brush fire in Alley Pond Park highlights growing wave of NYC fires amid drought conditions
A two-alarm brush fire erupted at Alley Pond Park on Wednesday, Nov. 13, highlighting a concerning trend of increasing ...
2 charged with setting some Northeast wildfires amid New Jersey drought warning and blazes out West
The dry weather has brought a spate of brush and woodland fires to a part of the country that rarely has to deal with them on ...
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FDNY Crews Face Challenges Battling Brush Fires
A massive brush fire exacerbated by the city’s ongoing drought destroyed about 4 acres of Manhattan’s Inwood Hill Park, FDNY ...