The significant increase in brush fires in New York City has led the FDNY to establish its first Brush Fire Task Force. The ...

Neighbors and visitors to parks in New York City are watching the grounds and scanning the skies. Where there’s smoke, there ...

New York City’s ongoing drought has sparked a record 215 brush fires in just the past two weeks, FDNY officials said ...

An elite team of FDNY fire marshals, fire protection inspectors, and drone operators is being pulled together to combat the ...

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.

The Fire Department (FDNY) has set up a specialized task force to battle and prevent NYC wildfires, scores of which have ...

A massive brush fire exacerbated by the city’s ongoing drought destroyed about 4 acres of Manhattan’s Inwood Hill Park, FDNY ...

The fire ignited and spread rapidly across a large area of brush inside the park on Wednesday, and another fire in the park ...

The FDNY battled an intense three-alarm apartment building fire at the Greenwood Arms complex in Howard Beach on Thursday ...

A two-alarm brush fire erupted at Alley Pond Park on Wednesday, Nov. 13, highlighting a concerning trend of increasing ...

Two FDNY firefighters were injured while battling a three-alarm fire in a Queens apartment building; no civilians were hurt, ...

Where there’s smoke, there are firefighters. The FDNY reported that firefighters have responded to more than 230 brush fires in the past two weeks. That record is higher than the average ...