Unseasonably dry conditions coupled with high winds put 27 million residents from New Jersey to Boston under fire alerts Saturday.

With wind gusts up to 35 mph, relative humidity hovering around 25%, and an arid fall that is 6 to 8 inches behind its average rainfall, the region is desperate for relief.

On Friday, the New York Fire Department responded to calls of a brush fire in Prospect Park. Ultimately, it took the NYFD over three hours to subdue the blaze, which burned over 2 acres of dry vegetation.

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