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

Investigators believe the initial backyard blaze started when a Long Island resident used cardboard to ignite a fire to make ...

An attempt to make s'mores accidentally sparked the massive brush fires that impacted the East End of Long Island, Suffolk County police said Monday.

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

Approximately 90 fire and emergency services agencies converged on Westhampton to battle brush fires that culminated in a ...

New York's governor triggered a burn ban for the area. She issued a prohibition on most types of outside camping, cooking and ...

The fires broke out in the same vicinity of the Pine Barrens in which a much worse wind-driven blaze devastated thousands of acres along the Sunrise Highway in the late summer of 1995. Drought ...

An arson investigation is underway on Long Island after a series of brush fires over the weekend injured at least two ...

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 ...

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