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).

Nearly four dozen firefighters were deployed to battle a brush fire in the Inwood section of Manhattan on Wednesday.

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