A brush fire is ripping through Long Island, New York. The fire broke out in the Pine Barrens near Westhampton. It is spreading along the Sunrise Highway. A brush fire is ripping through Long ...

The brush fire in the pine barrens this weekend ignited in a part of Suffolk County with a history of fires and flare-ups — to some degree a natural part of the ecosystem but also exacerbated ...

Governor Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency as state agencies responded to fires in the Pine Barrens, a wooded area near commuter towns east of New York City. She warned that homes ...

Controlled fires could start in the coming days in five state forests in the Long Island pine barrens from Rocky Point to Westhampton, state environmental officials said. During a burn season that ...

With wildfires happening more often and burning more area, homes need to be “hardened” to make them more fire-resistant ...

Gathered round Martha’s Pond in New Jersey’s iconic Pine Barrens, students in Claude Epstein’s environmental science class ...

A family from California embraced the slopes of Park City, and built a house in tune with nature. Kirsten Molz always thought ...

When I tell someone that the New Jersey Pine Barrens are among my favorite spots for a weekend getaway, they look at me like I just proposed vacationing on Jupiter. I suspect this incredulity ...

Dozens of fire departments and the National Guard were working on Saturday to extinguish multiple wildfires the broke out on the South Shore of Long Island, scorching the Pine Barrens and spreading ...

with a ton of homes, East Mauritius. It could have been a very different fire had it gone into Brookhaven town.” Romaine recalled the devastating 1995 wildfire in the Pine Barrens, which burned ...

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 ... “one or two homes,” according ...

Officials say no homes burned, crediting volunteer firefighters from across Long Island and the New York National Guard for dumping water on the pine barrens blaze, which was fueled by strong ...