Suffolk County police said a family attempting to cook s’mores Saturday morning in Manorville is believed to have sparked four separate fires — in Center Moriches, East Moriches, Eastport and ...

Long Island’s pine barrens cover 105,000 acres — a small remnant of a forest that once extended over a quarter million acres, but still a very large landscape to manage with controlled burns.

Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon announced the arrest of a man who allegedly dumped 24 tons of concrete in Long Island’s pine barrens. Suffolk County Sheriff's Office ...

Jesse Garcia, chairman of the Suffolk County & Brookhaven Town Republican Committees, wrote on X: "Massive wildfire in the pine barrens. More than 70 fire companies and 20 EMS on site.

Suffolk County Police Commissioner Kevin Catalina said the "operating theory" is that a fire was started at about 9:30 a.m. ET Saturday when a resident used cardboard to start a fire to make s ...

In a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday, Mar. 8, Governor Hochul announced the declaration. "I am issuing a State of Emergency as Suffolk County fights brush fires in the Pine Barrens," she ...

Meanwhile, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul issued a state of emergency for Suffolk County and a burn ban across the area as crews battled the fire in the Pine Barrens.

Suffolk County officials are working to determine if an arsonist is to blame for the recent wildfires that scorched 600 acres of land on the East End. Suffolk Police Commissioner Kevin Catalina ...