The section of the pine barrens that burned in the Westhampton brush fire on Saturday is expected to recover with new plant ...

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

Wind-driven brush fires that burned on New York’s Long Island over the weekend, injuring two firefighters and sending large smoke plumes into the air, appear to have been started by people making ...

A New York resident making s'mores in their backyard is suspected of accidentally igniting a series of wildfires over the ...

The wildfires began accidentally when someone in Suffolk County tried to light a fire to make s’mores, officials said. They ...

Officials said that the family making s’mores had difficulty getting the fire lit as strong winds blew through the area, and ...

Brush fires that burned hundreds of acres on Long Island over the weekend are under control but a burn ban remains in place.

Law enforcement agencies are still interviewing all 911 callers to rule out any possibilities, but they "strongly feel that ...

Investigators say embers from a backyard fire spread rapidly, fueling blazes that prompted evacuations and an emergency burn ...

The ban follows a state of emergency declared in Suffolk County by Hochul to deploy ground and air support to assist with the ...

A homeowner's failed attempt to make s'mores likely sparked this weekend's fast-moving brush fire on Long Island, Suffolk ...

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.