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 brush fire appears to have reignited overnight in the Inwood neighborhood of Upper Manhattan. The FDNY said reports of smoke and flames came in just after 2:30 p.m. Wednesday from a large area inside Inwood Hill Park,

The fire ignited and spread rapidly across a large area of brush inside the park on Wednesday, and another fire in the park started around 2 a.m. Thursday.

A brush fire east of New York Penn Station has spurred power outages for Amtrak trains running to and from New Haven, Connecticut, prompting lengthy delays for passengers.

Services have resumed after a transformer fire in the Bronx impacted Amtrak trains that run between Union Station in New Haven and New York City.

Amtrak service between New York Penn Station and New Haven is expected to be suspended until Wednesday afternoon after a fire on the tracks in the Bronx scrambled trains on Tuesday. “Amtrak personnel are currently assessing and repairing damages done to the tracks,