Global warming may bring us more rain overall, but the current high pressure system (expected to end tonight?) has kept rain away from us for 2 months now, which wasn't helping anything.
The article doesn't mention that 700 full-time park workers were cut in Eric Adams' budget. 50 of those park workers were forestry specialists, who did things such as removing sick/dead trees, and clearing the sort of brush/debris that is easily ignitable.
We see this over and over again: whatever money you "save" by delaying or skipping maintenance, you end up having to spend when something actually breaks.
