A brush fire tore through a hilly, wooded section of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park on Friday night, burning a likely small but indeterminate amount of acreage in New York City’s other main Frederick Law Olmsted-designed urban sanctuary after Manhattan’s Central Park, NBC News reports.
The inferno was just the latest in an outbreak of wildfires across a region that hasn’t seen substantial rain since September coupled with unseasonably warm temperatures often above 80 degrees. “The fire’s under control, and there are some hotter spots,” FDNY Commissioner Robert S Tucker said Friday, adding that they’ll investigate Saturday. “Daylight will help us figure out the cause and origin of this fire,” Tucker continued, as if they’re going to be able to track down the dickhead who probably simply dropped the butt of a joint on some dry leaves.