Firefighters remain on the scene of a brush fire at Inwood Hill Park in Upper Manhattan after it flared up again overnight. The FDNY said reports of smoke and flames came in just after 2:30 p.m. Wednesday from a large area inside the park,

The blaze in the borough’s “most ancient forest” was the latest in a series of brush fires in the metro area amid record drought conditions.

A massive brush fire exacerbated by the city’s ongoing drought destroyed about four acres of Manhattan’s Inwood Hill Park, FDNY officials said Thursday. The raging blaze, which began about 3 p.m. Wednesday, tore its way through about four acres of parkland near W. 218 St. as upper Manhattan was covered in thick grey smoke for most of the day.

A massive brushfire spanning northern New Jersey and New York broke out earlier this week, torching more than 7,000 acres along Greenwood Lake’s eastern edge, according to News 12 New Jersey. That blaze, known as the Jennings Creek fire, is only 30% contained.

In the Must See video above, Firefighters responded to a brush fire in Manhatan’s Inwood Hill Park on Wednesday, November 13, as a red flag warning was in effect for the region.

Two brush fires erupted in Inwood Hill Park on Wednesday. The first, near Seaman Avenue and West 207th Street, was reported at about 2:40 p.m. and was under control at 4:07 p.m., an FDNY spokesperson confirmed.