The massive brush fire that impacted the East End of Long Island​ is no longer burning in Westhampton, but Forest Rangers worked all day on Sunday to contain the perimeter.
The cause of the brush fires that ravished 400 acres on Long Island’s Pine Barrens have been ruled accidental.
Firefighters in New York continued to battle at least one brush fire in a wooded stretch of Long Island on Sunday.
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.
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