while other times they were caused by sparks flying from early Long Island Rail Road cars. In 1862, according to the Pine Barrens Society, a fire raged from Smithtown to Southampton. Long Island ...

Long Island firefighters plunged their off-road trucks straight into the heart of raging wildfires that erupted in the Pine Barrens on Saturday, battling intense flames and thick smoke as they ...

For more than a week from late August to early September of 1995, the wind-whipped Sunrise Fire burned some 5,000 acres of the pine barrens on ... the Long Island Rail Road and exposed weaknesses ...

Ollie Sweeney, Contributing Writer Earlier this month, a devastating wildfire ripped across Sunrise Highway on Long Island.

County Road 31 southbound was also closed ... 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 ...

SUFFOLK COUNTY, Long Island (WABC) -- Massive, wind-whipped brush fires are raging across parts of Long Island's Pine Barrens region ... a car had veered off the road and caught fire.

The fire crossed the road ... pulling off his hat so it wouldn’t blow away.The fires evoked memories of the 1995 Sunrise Fire that burned through more than 5,000 acres of the Pine Barrens ...