A severe drought in the Northeast, that isn't expected to lessen up soon, has caused an "unprecedented number of brush fires" according to the FDNY.

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 ...

The blaze in the borough’s “most ancient forest” was the latest in a series of brush fires in the metro area amid record drought conditions.

The blaze in the park, at the northern tip of Manhattan, followed brush fires that burned in Brooklyn, the Bronx and New Jersey over the past week.

A brush fire at Inwood Hill Park in Upper Manhattan broke out again overnight, but firefighters had it back under control before daybreak.

The New York City fire department has responded to 229 brush fires from October 29 to Nov. 12, a record for any two-week period.

The Eaton and Palisades fires in January caused an unprecedented level of destruction, killing at least 30 people, destroying ...

An El Monte-based nonprofit is giving local fire victims one less thing to worry about as it refurnishes homes damaged by January’s brush fires.

The Cortaro Fire in Marana was the result of numerous brush fires that merged in the Santa Cruz River bed on May 24.

Yakima area fire stations battled two brush fires Thursday afternoon. One started at approximately 1:30 p.m. in an overgrown empty lot overgrown behind Manhattan Station Espresso at 2412 S.