Authorities are reporting the death of a New York forest ranger battling one of a number of wildfires in New Jersey and New York amid dry conditions that have prompted air quality warnings in both ...

A teenager employed by New York’s state parks department died while fighting a wildfire near the New Jersey border in Orange County on Saturday. Dariel Vasquez, 18, was killed when a tree fell on him ...

Crews Sunday continued battling a wildfire that broke out late Friday on Neversink Mountain. The fast-spreading blaze was ...

There’s a bit of good news for our air quality after millions woke up Saturday morning surprised to find a troubling amount ...

Wildfires brought on by extreme dry conditions have left parts of the East Coast in a dangerous haze this weekend.

A man has been charged with arson after allegedly firing an illegal shotgun round that sparked a wildfire in New Jersey that ...

Dariel Vasquez was helping mitigate a fire Saturday in Sterling Forest in Orange County when he was killed, New York State ...

A family is mourning after an 18-year-old was killed fighting a fire near Greenwood Lake Saturday afternoon.  Dariel Vasquez, a senior and baseball team captain at Ramapo ...

A state parks worker was killed Saturday while responding to a large wildfire in Orange County that originated across the ...

In a statement Sunday, Hochul also acknowledged the death of Dariel Vasquez, an 18-year-old State Parks and Recreation aide killed battling a wildfire in Sterling Forest in Greenwood Lake, New York.