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

Firefighters will continue to vigorously fight accidental wildfires, even in the region's least dense areas, a Suffolk fire ...

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.

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

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 ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency Saturday as dozens of fire departments and the National Guard worked to extinguish multiple wildfires that broke out on the South Shore of Long ...

Hundreds of spring peeper frogs were trying to cross a two-lane road to breed in a large pond and were being run over. The ...

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has made state resources available as multiple fire departments respond to a major wildfire in ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency a day earlier after four separate fires broke out across large swaths of Long Island’s Pine Barrens region, prompting closures to the highway and ...

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 ...