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

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 ...

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 ...

New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Saturday advised that Albany was in close communication with "local partners on Long Island" after fires broke out along Sunrise Highway in 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 fires are believed to have been accidental, Suffolk County Police Commissioner ... that burned through more than 5,000 acres of the Pine Barrens nature preserve and forced hundreds from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The Lower Hudson Valley and other parts of New York are under an early burn ban ahead of a statewide ban that starts Sunday, March 16.