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 ...

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 ...

The pine barrens are a "fire dependent ecosystem ... The region is home to birds, small mammals and deer. Since this fire was at the beginning of spring, "when everyone is starting their ...

Massive brush fires continue to burn in Long Island’s Pine Barrens, officials investigating potential arson, ABC 7 New York reports. Officials are probing the possibility of arson in connection ...

The fires were declared 100% contained on Monday. A New York resident making s'mores in their backyard is suspected of accidentally igniting a series of wildfires over the weekend that swept ...

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 ...

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 ...

He said the fire was fueled by hundreds of dead pine trees in the Pine Barrens region. "Without the combined efforts of everyone involved, we would not have been able to stop this fire," Romaine said.