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 officials said Thursday. The raging blaze, which began at about 3 p.m. Wednesday, tore its way through about 4 acres of parkland near W. 218th St. as upper Manhattan was covered in thick gray smoke for most of the day.