Two fires reportedly ignited around 3 p.m. and spread rapidly across a large area of brush, sending a smoke blanket moving over Manhattan toward the George Washington Bridge.
The Inwood Hill Park fire is the latest in an unusually high number of fires in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut amid dry conditions and gusty winds.
Firefighters battled a bushfire in Manhattan’s InwoodHillPark through the night ... from the Harlem River and stretch hoselines up a hill over 150-feet to reach the fire that burned within ...