No rain means brush fires in Boston

Boston firefighters have been busy battling brush fires this weekend, first in Stony Brook Reservation yesterday and then in Franklin Park today - after more than three weeks without any rain.

Firefighters responded to Stony Brook Reservation between Washington Street and Turtle Pond, off Enneking Parkway, yesterday morning for what the Boston Fire Department described as "a large brush fire." The department stores a truck designed for fighting brush fires at a station nearby on Washington Street in West Roxbury.

Today, around 1 p.m., firefighters responded to two separate fires in the Wilderness area of Franklin Park, off Forest Hills Street and Williams Street.