A busy August came amid a larger uptick in calls for fire department services. The volume, officials say, has resources spread thin.
Some areas of the park will remain closed as crews complete cleanup work and monitor fire hotspots.
A firefighter is expected to be okay after being taken to a local hospital with heat exhaustion symptoms.
Fires had burned close to 80 acres within the reservation as of a DCR update last week.
At least 79 acres of the reservation had burned as of Tuesday afternoon, according to the Department of Conservation and Recreation.
Recent rain has helped conditions, the DCR said. But it will do little to dampen fires burning deep into parched forest soil.
Fires in Rockport burned through a wetland in recent weeks. That, officials say, is a mark of an atypical fire season in Massachusetts.
National Guard helicopters joined the fire response on Sunday as crews continue to battle wildfires within the Breakheart Reservation.
Smoke from the fires is combining with smoke from the nearby Lynn Woods Reservation to make for a hazy weekend across the region.
The fires have been burning since Tuesday, sending smoke over area communities while keeping firefighters busy.
Fires broke out on Tuesday night and have flared up at various points in the days since.
The fires drew a regional response from area departments on Tuesday night.
Crews from multiple area departments responded to the fires on Tuesday night.
Crews from Reading, Stoneham, Melrose, North Reading, Lynnfield, Woburn, Winchester and Wilmington responded to the fire scene.
The crash took place on Tuesday near Galvin Middle School in Wakefield.
A 31-year-old Pennsylvania man was arrested after he was seen driving erratically immediately before the crash Tuesday morning, police said.
Timothy Martin is charged with killing his mother, longtime Wakefield Schools speech therapist Pamela Wood.
A woman died after being struck by a truck on Main Street Wednesday evening.
There is no threat or danger to the school. There will be visible police activity in the area during school dismissal.
A work crew found the remains of Patrick Shea, 68, of Wakefield, while surveying a wooded area behind Wakefield High School.
There is no threat to the school but there will be police activity during dismissal.
Police said while the student displayed "poor judgement" his actions did not meet criminal standards.
No injuries were reported during the fire at Colonial Point Apartments, a 178-unit building on Audubon Road.
The 15-year-old was found.
The Boston Globe reported Ronald McCarron was arrested after driving a van through a police barricade at the "Rise Against Tyranny" rally.
Prosecutors said one of the members of the group told police the highway standoff would have ended differently had they called in backup.
Jamhal Talib Abdullah Bey wants $1,000 for each day he has been in jail since his July 3 arrest and a written apology from Governor Baker.
One woman was wheeled away on a stretcher.
Authorities in Cohasset said the 57-year-old man pushed a teen girl into the water below the Border Street Bridge.
The Wakefield police chief revealed more details of authorities' encounter with the heavily armed Rise of the Moors suspects.
Two more members were arraigned, but one refused to give his identity and another was hollering about injustice.
The men were declining lawyers and refusing to answer simple questions from the judge in a series of dragged-out arraignments.
The 11 men arrested Saturday adhere to "Moorish Sovereign Ideology," State Police and Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said.
The north side of I-95 remains closed between Stoneham and Lynnfield as police continue their investigation after the eight-hour standoff.
The 25-year-old engine would be sold to the Malden Fire Department for $3,000, a "fair price" considering where it's at, the chief says.
Police said a man driving a pickup truck approached a teen girl and made inappropriate comments to a woman in her yard this week.
Nearly 1 million pounds of prescription drugs were collected during the last take-back event in October 2020.
James John Denaro of Crescent Street has been reported missing. The 65-year-old is known to frequent downtown.
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