Master Sgt. Barry Wood was onboard a military helicopter flying 2,000 feet above Long Island Sound when he recognized his ...

A family trying to make s’mores at their Manorville home on Saturday morning accidentally caused the brush fire that burned ...

Long Island’s vulnerable pine barrens, recently ravaged by wildfires last March, are facing another threat in the form of an ...

Fire officials say there are no more visible flames from the eastern Long Island fires. The Westhampton Beach Fire Department and Suffolk Fire Rescue Emergency Services told News 12 that four ...

The fire, in the Westhampton area, was the largest of four that broke out Saturday afternoon. By Sunday, firefighters had suppressed the flames and contained the blaze around roughly a quarter of ...

Flames erupted along Sunrise Highway near Riverhead and East Hampton on Saturday afternoon, according to the Eastport Fire Department. The surrounding skies are filled with smoke and more than ...

The kayaker had tried to pull the vessel from the mud and "sunk down to his upper thighs," one fire official said.

Polly Weigand, the Northeast fire programs manager for the Forest Stewards Guild, talks about the Dwarf Pine Plains and ...