Brooklyn, New York – An incinerated, rusty microwave, the charred skeleton of a lawn chair, a pile of melted clothes, and singed scraps of the Holy Bible sat ominously on the forest floor, alongside a smattering of scorched pinecones.
Under a canopy of blackened tree trunks, in a small clearing in the northwest section of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park on Thursday, the apocalyptic aftermath of a fire that engulfed a homeless encampment in the park’s woods was still on display. A fire truck slowly circled the perimeter of the park while a squirrel scampered amongst fallen autumn leaves and parched earth.
