Controlled or prescribed fires have been used on Long Island since the 1995 Sunrise Fire near Westhampton to improve habitats ...

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

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 ...

Image Smoke from the fires in the Pine Barrens off Sunrise Highway in Long Island on Saturday.Credit...Cheran Campbell/New York Air National Guard, via Associated Press The National Weather ...

A New York resident making s'mores in their backyard is suspected of accidentally igniting a series of wildfires over the weekend that swept through hundreds of acres of the Pine Barrens region of ...

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 ...

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 ...

This photo provided by the New York Air National Guard shows smoke from the fires in the Pine Barrens off Sunrise Highway in New York's Long Island, on Saturday, March 8, 2025. (Cheran Campbell ...

A New York resident making s'mores in their ... the weekend that swept through hundreds of acres of the Pine Barrens region of Long Island, authorities said Monday. Suffolk County Police ...

Massive brush fires continue to burn in Long Island’s Pine Barrens, officials investigating potential arson, ABC 7 New York reports. Officials are probing the possibility of arson in connection ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Fast-moving brush fires fanned by high winds burned through a large swath of land on New York's Long Island on Saturday ... agencies were responding to the fires around the Pine ...