Federal agencies have removed topsoil from burned areas but will not test it for contaminants. So scientists and residents ...

Arson could be the cause of several wind-driven brush fires that burned on New York’s Long Island over the weekend, injuring two firefighters and sending large smoke plumes into the air, officials ...

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

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 ...

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 state and the correctional officers’ union agreed that officers should return to work Monday and that some provisions of ...

Governor Hochul has declared a State of Emergency in Suffolk County A MULTIPLE BRUSH FIRES, WHICH BEGAN sATURDAY AFTERNOON ...

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 ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul expanded emergency measures as firefighters continued battling the aftermath of weekend brush fires in ...

According to the New York Daily News, around 600 acres of the Long Island Pine Barrens were burnt as a result of the fires, ...

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