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

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

The Suffolk County Police Department released the following statement on March 10 on the brush fires in the pine barrens this ...

Suffolk County Police Arson Section detectives believe the cause is related to a fire that spread following an attempt to ...

Firefighters have gained control over much of the Pine Barrens wildfires that scorched hundreds of acres along Sunrise … ...

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

Rudy Sunderman, the commissioner of the Suffolk County Department of Fire, Rescue and Emergency Services, said the fire covered an approximately 1-by-3-mile area in the Pine Barrens and was about ...

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

Fast-moving brush fires fanned by high winds burned through a large swath of land on Long Island on Saturday, spewing thick ...