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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Massive brush fires continue to burn in Long Island’s Pine Barrens ... Kathy Hochul. Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine indicated that officials are investigating the fires as a potential ...

Suffolk County Police Commissioner Kevin Catalina ... igniting a fire in Eastport and another fire in the publicly protected Pine Barrens region of West Hampton, according to Catalina.

Jesse Garcia, chairman of the Suffolk County & Brookhaven Town Republican Committees, wrote on X: "Massive wildfire in the pine barrens. More than 70 fire companies and 20 EMS on site. Declaration ...

SUFFOLK COUNTY, Long Island (WABC ... The fires broke out in the same vicinity of the Pine Barrens in which a much worse wind-driven blaze devastated thousands of acres along the Sunrise ...

Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency a day earlier after four separate fires broke out across large swaths of Long Island’s Pine Barrens region ... according to Suffolk County Fire Coordinator ...