{"id":123992,"date":"2024-11-09T21:44:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T14:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=123992"},"modified":"2024-11-09T21:44:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T14:44:51","slug":"brush-fire-in-brooklyns-prospect-park-contained-nyc-drought-watch-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=123992","title":{"rendered":"Brush fire in Brooklyn&#8217;s Prospect Park contained, NYC drought watch continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><strong>NEW YORK<\/strong> \u2014 New York City firefighters are looking for hot spots today in Brooklyn&#8217;s Prospect Park, where a brush fire consumed approximately two acres.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/video\/officials-provide-update-on-prospect-park-brush-fire-in-brooklyn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">According to fire officials<\/a>, a passerby who was walking through the park just before 7 p.m. Friday called 911 to report smoke.<\/p>\n<p>By 8 p.m., the FDNY said the fire had grown to two alarms and spread across approximately two acres. FDNY Brooklyn Borough Commander Joe Duggan said the fire was in an &#8220;extremely inaccessible,&#8221; hilly area with dense brush.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-twitter-tweet embed--float-none embed--size-medium lazyload\" data-require=\"third-party\/twitter-widgets\">\n<div class=\"embed__content-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FDNY?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#FDNY<\/a> units are operating at a brush fire in Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Operations are ongoing. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/15QclbBXov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/15QclbBXov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FDNY (@FDNY) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FDNY\/status\/1855054844328882270?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 9, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>It took about 120 firefighters to get the fire under control, FDNY officials said. Firefighters would remain on the scene overnight to ensure it doesn&#8217;t reignite.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are some hotter spots. As the wind picks up, there might be a, you know, a spark or something, but we&#8217;re leaving fire companies here for the purposes of mitigating any small fires that might happen. It&#8217;s very wet up there now, we&#8217;ve got a lot of water up there now, so we don&#8217;t think that there&#8217;s any threat to future fires tonight up there,&#8221; FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker said.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear how the fire started.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Daylight will help us figure out the cause and origin of this fire,&#8221; Tucker said.<\/p>\n<p>FDNY officials said no civilian structures were threatened by the fire at any point. There were no reported injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Crews were also called to another brush fire near the Major Deegan Expressway in the Highbridge section of the Bronx. Further details have not yet been released about that fire.<\/p>\n<h2>New York City under drought watch<\/h2>\n<p>New York City <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/nyc-drought-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">is under a drought watch<\/a><\/span>, along with other parts of the state, due to the weeks-long dry stretch across the region. Less than 2 inches of rain has fallen in Central Park since September, and October was the driest month ever recorded in the city.<\/p>\n<p>A <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/what-is-a-red-flag-warning-new-york-new-jersey\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Red Flag Warning was also issued for the area Friday<\/a><\/span>, meaning the danger for fire is very high because of a combination of high winds and parched earth. The warning has been extended through 6 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re encouraging New Yorkers to, you know, don&#8217;t throw cigarette butts on the ground. Making sure that, as the passerby did today, you&#8217;re reporting any fires you see. You shouldn&#8217;t be grilling in the parks,&#8221; said New York City Office of Emergency Management Commissioner Zachary Iscol.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were extremely lucky by the passerby who saw something but also did something. They notified the FDNY, and it was a quick response,&#8221; Mayor Eric Adams said.<\/p>\n<p>After six wildfires on Staten Island over the last two weeks, Borough President Vito Fossella and FDNY officials plan to urge locals to take preemptive measures to protect their homes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We work with the State Department of Environmental Conservation to allow homeowners who live around an area that may be very sensitive or prone of brush fires to obtain a permit and cut back some of the Phragmites with the goal to protect their homes and the people who live in those homes,&#8221; Fossella said.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters in New Jersey have been battling <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/nj-wildfire-jackson-today-forest-fire-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">a string of wildfires in recent days<\/a><\/span>, including <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/palisades-new-jersey-wildfire\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">one that started early Friday morning in the Palisades<\/a><\/span>. That fire sent clouds of smoke across the Hudson River into parts of Upper Manhattan and the Bronx.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__meta--contributors\">\n      <em><\/p>\n<p>                      <span class=\"byline__author__text\">Lori Bordonaro<\/span> and <\/p>\n<p>                                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/Alecia-Reid\/\" class=\"byline__author__link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Alecia Reid<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        contributed to this report.<br \/>\n      <\/em>\n    <\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p><!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/katie-houlis\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Katie Houlis<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Katie Houlis is a digital producer with the CBS New York web team.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/prospect-park-brush-fire-brooklyn\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 New York City firefighters are looking for hot spots today in Brooklyn&#8217;s Prospect Park, where a brush fire consumed approximately two acres.\u00a0 According to fire officials, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=123992\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}