An 18-year-old New York forest ranger died Saturday while battling one of many wildfires burning through several thousand acres across the tri-state. Dariel Vasquez had been deployed to Sterling Forest in Orange County,

Health advisories were issued for parts of New York and northeastern New Jersey due to unhealthy air quality from the smoke.

The fire was in an “extremely dense” part of Prospect Park on a hill, and there were no structures nearby to be threatened, an FDNY official said.

About 100 firefighters were called to put out a two-acre brush fire in a heavily wooded section of Prospect Park in Brooklyn on Friday night, prompting officials to warn residents to stay away as they used drones to identify hot spots.

On Friday night, flames could be seen piercing through trees in the 526-acre New York City park in the middle of the borough.