The inhabited stretch of it is about seven miles long — but just a couple of blocks wide in the Village of Ocean Beach ... Fire Island has taken the brunt of storms that hit coastal New York.

This time, the lifeguard was at Ocean Beach on Fire Island. The lifeguard was about 150 to 200 yards out treading water when he or she was bitten. Officials with the Town of Islip say experts told ...

The barrier island off the coast of New York ... Fire Island and appeared to undo large parts of that decade-long restoration project in a matter of months. As the beach succumbs to the advancing ...

John Mullins, 17, of Islip says he was in the middle of a training exercise for the lifeguard test on Thursday and was about 100 to 150 feet off Ocean Beach on Fire Island. Just like another ...

OCEAN BEACH, N.Y. -- A Long Island lifeguard is recovering after being bitten by a shark. It happened near Ocean Beach on Fire Island. First-year lifeguard John Mullins is donning a few new battle ...

In the latest case, a lifeguard in the Village of Ocean Beach was conducting ... summer 2021. The Fire Island shark bite was the first on LI since 1948, one of seven in New York State since ...

A teenager surfing off Fire Island in New York was attacked ... which borders Kismet Beach to the west. A spokesperson for New York State Parks said emergency medical technicians (EMTs) at Robert ...