NEW YORK-- Firefighters were battling a brush fire in northern Manhattan on Wednesday afternoon. The FDNY said reports of smoke and flames in a large area inside Inwood Hill Park, near Seaman Avenue and West 207th Street, came in just after 2:30 p.m. Nine ...

At least two brush fires broke out at an upper Manhattan park, FDNY officials said, one of which was not yet under control as of Wednesday evening.

A brushfire broke out in Manhattan’s Inwood Hill Park on Wednesday afternoon — sending plumes of smoke billowing over the city. The blaze began at around 3 p.m. and spread rapidly across the brush, with the smoke reaching as far as three-miles south to the George Washington Bridge,