A brush fire broke out in Brooklyn’s historic Prospect Park on Friday night amid a drought across the northeast. A passerby reported the fire at about 6:40 p.m., and firefighters battled the blaze for more than three hours,

The fire was in an “extremely dense” part of Prospect Park on a hill, and there were no structures nearby to be threatened, an FDNY official said.

Firefighters extinguished a second brush fire in Prospect Park on Saturday, roughly a mile away from the site of Friday night’s larger blaze, FDNY officials said. Forty smoke eaters responded to a fire near the LeFrak Center at Lakeside ice skating rink at about 2:40 p.