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

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — On Saturday, Dariel Vasquez, an 18-year-old New York State Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation Department employee, was killed while battling a fire at Sterling Forest in Greenwood Lake, New York.

A New York parks employee 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 worker died when a tree fell on him Saturday afternoon as he battled a major brush fire along the New York-New