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Utsayantha Mountain Fire Tower. In 1889, a prominent citizen who lived in the village of Stamford purchased 20 acres (0.031 sq mi) on the top of Utsayantha Mountain. After purchasing the land he built a four-story observation house and deeded the property to the town as a park for public use.
The New York City government warned residents that they may see or smell smoke from the wildfires and urged people to exercise caution using grills and outdoor gas during "increased brush fire risk."
Across the state of Connecticut in late October, 70 wildfires were reported. [8] One such fire, the Hawthorne Fire, resulted in a firefighter being killed on October 22, with two others being injured. [9] By November 1, a statewide burn ban was issued in Maryland. [10] Firefighters put out a brush fire in Highbridge Park, Manhattan
It was 40 percent contained around 8 p.m., said the state Forest Fire Service. It said crews had conducted a backfire operation to burn fuel ahead of the main body of fire. That was intended to ...
An 18-year-old New York State Forest Ranger volunteer and state employee died Saturday while responding to a wildfire near the New York-New Jersey border that sent smoke drifting across New York ...
Eatons Neck is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Huntington in Suffolk County, on the North Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States.The population was 1,406 at the 2010 census.
The Moose River Plains Wild Forest is a 64,322-acre (100.5 sq mi; 260.3 km 2) tract in the Adirondack Park in Hamilton and Herkimer counties in the state of New York in the United States of America; it is designated as Wild Forest by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
The Blue Mountain Fire Observation Station is a historic fire observation station located on Blue Mountain at Indian Lake in Hamilton County, New York.The station includes a 35-foot-tall (11 m), steel frame lookout tower built in 1917, an observer's cabin built in 1975, the remains of three observer's cabins, remains of a radar station built in the 1960s, and remnants of telephone lines along ...