Officials placed bans on Massachusetts ... fires have burned around 450 acres in the state in the last seven days, Jake Wark, the Public Information Officer for theMassachusetts Department of ...

several Massachusetts communities are dealing with significant brush fires. According to the Department of Fire Services, as of Monday there have been 106 brush and wildland fires reported over ...

There were 196 brush fires reported in the state this October, more than 10 times as many as the monthly average, which is 15, according to the Massachusetts Department of Fire Services.

As Massachusetts firefighters continue to battle a spike in outdoor fires across the state, a Boston man is in custody after officials said he set a brush fire outside the city over the weekend.