Suffolk County Police Commissioner Kevin Catalina said the "operating theory" is that a fire was started at about 9:30 a.m.

Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency and said state agencies were responding to the fires around the Pine Barrens, ...

Police in New York say multiple brush fires that burned across a wooded area of Long Island over the weekend were ...

Firefighters in New York continued to battle at least one brush fire in a wooded stretch of Long Island on Sunday.

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

The massive brush fire that impacted the East End of Long Island​ is no longer burning in Westhampton, but Forest Rangers ...

Following brush fires in Long Island, Gov. Kathy Hochul issued a burn ban until March 16, when New York’s annual statewide ...

Arson could be the cause of several wind-driven brush fires that burned on New York’s Long Island over the weekend, injuring ...

Stemming the Southern pine beetle onslaught is one way to limit the amount of dead trees that lead to new growth and more ...

Fires are tied to the history of the pine barrens, now at 105,000 acres, down from what experts believe at one time was a quarter of a million acres.

Investigators have determined that the brush fires that burned more than 400 acres of Long Island’s Pine Barrens over the ...

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