The fire broke out in the Pine Barrens near Westhampton ... You can check out the live fire map here. A brush fire is ripping through Long Island, New York.(Representational Image/ UnSplash ...

The State Department of Environmental Conservation plans to conduct prescribed burns on certain DEC-managed lands in Suffolk County between now and early May.

A fire danger map from New York's Department of Environmental ... "I am issuing a State of Emergency as Suffolk County fights brush fires in the Pine Barrens. I have spoken to @ExecEdRomaine ...

Estimates of the bird population vary, but experts say between 300 to 500 species can be found at various times of the year ...

AirNow has an interactive Fire and Smoke Map for updates on blazes in your ... which quickly spread throughout the Pine Barrens. Rough satellite data indicated that fire and smoke stretched ...

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

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 ...

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 ...