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.

It’s been a year of unusual extremes for New Yorkers.

The record-breaking statistics come as several Northeast states battle extremely dry conditions and multiple wildfires.

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

A volunteer firefighter on Long Island, New York, was arrested Tuesday after he intentionally started a brush fire, ...

The state Department of Environmental Conservation said the Jennings Creek brush fire was 20% contained as it entered its ...

For the first time in days, the Northeast was under no red flag warnings, but officials cautioned that fire danger in the ...

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

A volunteer firefighter has been arrested for allegedly starting a brush fire on New York’s Long Island. The incident ...

Jonathan Quiles, 20, a volunteer firefighter with the Medford Fire Department in Suffolk County, was arrested on Tuesday, ...

The large brush fire near the New York-New Jersey border is now 90% contained, according to the New Jersey Forest Fire ...

New York City has had over 230 brush fires since Oct. 29, after its driest month since record-keeping began in 1869.