Firefighters in New York have knocked down a dwindling brush fire in a wooded stretch of Long Island but officials say high wind gusts could leave the region vulnerable to additional blazes.

New York State Governor Kathy Hochul issued a state of emergency on Saturday, March 8, as several wind-driven brush fires ...

The state Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services warned that wind gusts up to 40 mph were likely, complicating ...

Two commercial buildings were damaged and two firefighters suffered minor injuries, Suffolk County Fire Coordinator Rudy ...

The last of the wind-driven wildfires that had stretched hundreds of acres across eastern Long Island, prompting the New York governor to declare a state of emergency, was extinguished by Sunday ...

All four Long Island brush fires that sent soaring plumes of smoke into the air had been contained by Sunday afternoon, ...

Officials are not discarding the Long Island brush fires as a potential act of arson. As of Sunday afternoon, three out of the four brush fires in Suffolk County ...

SUFFOLK COUNTY, Long Island (WABC) -- The battle against massive, wind-whipped brush fires raging across parts of Long Island's Pine Barrens entered its second day on Sunday, after flames prompted a ...

The fire danger remains high on Long Island as officials work to quell wind-driven brush fires that broke out Saturday.

Towns and communities in Long Island, New York, were on alert Saturday after brush fires spewed thick smoke into the air. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency in Suffolk County as ...

Rudy Sunderman, commissioner of the Suffolk County Department of Fire, Rescue and Emergency Services, said Sunday that the ...