Investigators say embers from a backyard fire spread rapidly, fueling blazes that prompted evacuations and an emergency burn ...

Law enforcement agencies are still interviewing all 911 callers to rule out any possibilities, but they "strongly feel that ...

Following brush fires in Long Island, Gov. Kathy Hochul issued a burn ban until March 16, when New York’s annual statewide ...

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

Fire officials in Suffolk County say that a s’mores-making incident this past weekend caused some of the worst brush fires Long Island has seen in three ...

Residents in Center Moriches/Manorville tried to start a fire in their backyard around 9 a.m. Saturday to cook up the treat ...

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

Two firefighters were taken to the hospital, but have since been released. New York Governor Kathy Hochul has issued a state of emergency for Suffolk County and a burn ban for Long Island, New York ...

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 ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency and said state agencies were responding to the fires around the Pine Barrens, ...

Firefighters in New York continued to battle at least one brush fire in a wooded stretch of Long Island on Sunday.