New York State Police said they were investigating the death amid the fire in Sterling Forest located in Greenwood Lake.

Governor Kathy Hochul shared her condolences to the family of an 18-year-old New York State Parks employee after he died responding to a wildfire downstate.

Several wildfires, including fires in Pompton Lakes and West Milford, continue to burn across New Jersey on Sunday morning.

Wildfires tearing through New York and New Jersey have taken a deadly turn. A New York State parks employee died Saturday while battling a wildfire in Orange County, one of several blazes in the New ...

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

Wildfires have also erupted on the other side of the country, in southern California, where more than 100 structures have ...

About 60 miles further north, another smoke-heavy wildfire has engulfed 423 acres of the Catskill Park’s Sundown Wild Forest ...

The fire, the latest of several in the region over the weekend, had caused one death and was not contained as of Sunday ...

Wildfires continue to rage across portions of the Northeast on Sunday, with at least one fatality reported along the border of New York and New Jersey as crews continue their work to extinguish the ...

A satellite image shows smoke from the Pompton Lakes wildfire, pushed by a high-pressure system, in a clockwise direction ...