Firefighters will continue to vigorously fight accidental wildfires, even in the region's least dense areas, a Suffolk fire ...

There may not be a Jersey Devil, but a lot of strange occurrences happen in the large southern section of New Jersey known as ...

Fires are tied to the history of the pine barrens, now at 105,000 acres, down from what experts believe at one time was a quarter of a million acres.

Brush fires on New York's Long Island fanned by high winds have picked up quickly. The fires were spewing thick gray smoke ...

Government must act to remove dead trees that increase fire risk and spread and make firefighting even more difficult and dangerous.

The governor announced shortly before 5:30 p.m. that she was “issuing a State of Emergency as Suffolk County fights brush fires in the Pine Barrens.” Southampton also declared a local state of ...

“Paul, you really need a few hobbies. And therapy.” As students we traveled to the pine barrens, which are swampy bogs where the cold collected, hoping to see record low temperatures. Nothing ...