A state parks worker was killed Saturday while responding to a large wildfire in Orange County that originated across the border in New Jersey.

The employee, Dariel Vasquez, was killed while fighting a fire in Sterling Forest in Greenwood Lake, N.Y., the New York State Police said in a statement late Saturday. Steve Neuhaus, the Orange County executive, said that Mr. Vasquez was helping to clear trees and shrubs, which are fuel for a fire, from a wooded area when a tree fell and hit him.

An 18-year-old New York parks employee 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,

A teenager employed by New York’s state parks department died while fighting a wildfire near the New Jersey border in Orange County on Saturday. Dariel Vasquez, 18, was killed when a tree fell on him while he was battling a blaze near Greenwood Lake, according to Eastern Dutchess County Fire and Rescue.

A New York forest ranger was killed battling a wildfire that is burning near Greenwood Lake in Orange County and northern New Jersey.

A New York forest ranger died battling one of a number of wildfires in New Jersey and New York amid dry conditions that have prompted air quality warnings in both states, authorities said Sunday. The Eastern Dutchess County Fire and Rescue said the New York state forestry service reported that the forest ranger,

The US east and west coasts are experiencing November wildfires fuelled by warm weather, dry conditions and high winds.

The Eastern Dutchess County Fire and Rescue said the New York state forestry service reported that the worker died when a tree fell on him Saturday.

Fire crews on both coasts of the United States continued battling wildfires on Sunday, including a blaze in New York and New Jersey that killed a parks employee and another in Southern California that destroyed more than 130 structures and damaged dozens more.