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New York faces worst wildfire season in more than a decade

By Brian K. Sullivan and Lauren Rosenthal | November 18, 2024 at 08:30 AM
An area burns from the Jennings Creek Wildfire in Greenwood Lake, New York, on Nov. 13. (Credit: Kena Betancur/Getty Images)

(Bloomberg) — New York and the Northeast are in the midst of their worst fire season in more than a decade, with little relief in sight for weeks as drought and high winds threaten to raise the threat again by Friday.

Several blazes have broken out in New York in the past few days, a rare sight this late in the year. Amtrak shut service on its rail line between Connecticut and New York earlier this month due to a brush fire near the tracks. Fires also erupted in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park and Manhattan’s Inwood Hill Park, while schools were closed northwest of the city on Thursday and Friday because of blazes near Greenwood Lake, New York.

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