Amid New York Metropolis officers issuing an air high quality alert on Saturday, firefighters continued battling a 2,000-acre wildfire that unfold from New Jersey into New York, officers introduced Saturday night.
New York officers confirmed the dying of a State Forest Ranger who was battling the Jennings Creek Wildfire, about 50 miles northwest of New York Metropolis, which stays 0% contained.
The ranger’s title has not been launched but.
In the meantime, New York Metropolis’s Workplace of Emergency Administration stated Saturday night the Air High quality Index (AQI) in some displays had reached 201, indicating “very unhealthy” air high quality. Below these circumstances, the chance of well being results is elevated for everybody, in response to the federal authorities’s AirNow useful resource.
The town’s Workplace of Emergency Administration stated folks ought to restrict their out of doors exercise and {that a} high-quality masks can scale back publicity to air air pollution.
In a display seize from a video, a helicopter fights a wildfire in New Jersey, with the New York Metropolis skyline within the background, on Nov. 8, 2024.
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New York Metropolis, Lengthy Island and counties positioned north of town and in japanese New Jersey had been beneath pink flag warnings Saturday as a result of excessive threat of brushfire attributable to robust winds and intensely dry circumstances. Final week Mayor Eric Adams issued a citywide drought watch as New York has seen the second-longest dry streak in metropolis information courting again to 1869.
Whereas there have been quite a few ongoing brushfires in New Jersey, one additionally broke out proper in the course of Brooklyn Friday night time.
Firefighters spent virtually three hours attempting to comprise a fireplace that erupted in Prospect Park. By the point it was contained, the hearth had engulfed two acres, roughly two soccer fields, of the park, in response to the FDNY.
Smoke billows from a fireplace at Prospect Park, in Brooklyn, New York, on Nov. 8, 2024, on this image obtained from social media.
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Nobody was reported damage through the fireplace in Brooklyn, in response to officers.
“That is the brand new regular of maximum climate. It isn’t one thing that we’re anticipating, but it surely’s one thing that all of us have to be ready for,” New York Metropolis Emergency Administration Commissioner Zach Iscol instructed reporters at a information convention on the park Friday night time.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul stated she has deployed extra assets to battle the fires raging in upstate.
The Whitehouse Fireplace in Ulster and Sullivan counties was impacting roughly 300 to 400 acres and was anticipated to extend, she stated.
“The protection of all New Yorkers is my high precedence, and I urge everybody in impacted areas, particularly these susceptible, to remain alert, monitor air high quality, and take mandatory precautions to remain protected,” the governor stated in a press release.
New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams introduced on Saturday a ban on grilling in metropolis parks within the wake of the Brooklyn fireplace.
The mayor’s press launch additionally stated town has had 120 brush fires previously 10 days. Adams urged residents to preserve water, keep away from setting off fireworks and take away extreme leaves and brush from sidewalks.
“Getting by way of this drought will take all of us working collectively, and each drop counts, so let’s maintain doing our half to avoid wasting as a lot water as we will,” Adams stated.
In New Jersey, forest firefighters had been battling a wildfire in Passaic County that had already engulfed over 150 acres as of Saturday afternoon.
“It actually unfold quick final night time within the wind,” Pompton Lakes, New Jersey Mayor Mike Serra, instructed reporters.
Chief Invoice Donnelly, with the New Jersey Forest Fireplace Service, instructed reporters Saturday afternoon the hearth was on personal property owned by Dupont and was 50% contained.
“Not solely is the hearth burning up and above the bottom, [but] it is also burning past beneath the bottom, will get into the basis techniques and issues like that,” he stated. “So being it is so dry, we’re placing quite a lot of labor into placing these fires out. It takes quite a lot of water and issues like that to penetrate the bottom and get all the way down to the supply of the warmth.”
This photograph supplied by New Jersey Division of Environmental Safety firefighters reply to a forest fireplace, Nov. 6, 2024 in Evesham, N.J.
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Officers stated there was testing on the air and it got here again protected.
The dry circumstances have led to fires in a number of places all through the East Coast together with Studying, Pennsylvania.
