NEW YORK-- A brush fire at Inwood Hill Park in Upper Manhattan broke out again overnight, but firefighters had it back under control before daybreak. The FDNY said reports of smoke and flames came in just after 2:30 p.m. Wednesday from a large area inside ...

The fire, in Inwood Hill Park at the northern tip of Manhattan, followed brush fires that burned in Brooklyn, the Bronx and New Jersey over the past week.

Brush fire reaches three alarms in New York City, the New York City Fire Department reports that no one was injured (@MarkLevineNYC/X).

A volunteer firefighter on Long Island, New York, was arrested on Tuesday after authorities said he intentionally started a brush fire. Jonathan Quiles, with the Medford Fire Department, allegedly set a fire in a wooded area on Mount Vernon Avenue in Medford on Tuesday afternoon, Suffolk County police said in a news release.

Firefighters are slowly making progress in their battle against a wildfire at the border of New Jersey and New York.

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