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

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

The region's prolonged drought has created a flammable landscape heading into the state's peak season for blazes.

Firefighters have gained control over much of the Pine Barrens wildfires that scorched hundreds of acres along Sunrise Highway this weekend, but officials remain on alert as winds continue to pose ...

More wildfires could be in store for Long Island’s East End thanks to a tree-killing beetle. A wildfire ripped through about ...

Sarnoff and Dwarf Pine, all in Suffolk’s pine barrens. "This is a fire-adapted ecosystem,” said Stony Brook-based DEC ranger Bryan Gallagher, a specially trained "burn boss” who helps plan ...

After last month’s brush fires, state, county and local organizations began taking stock of the “new normal” in local forests and wooded areas. One point of consensus is the recognition of how both ...

Proposed cuts for prescribed burning could rekindle a debate over fire’s historical role in managing some forests.

But strong air currents combined with dry conditions in the Long Island Pine Barrens could yet pose a problem, said Lewis Scott, the second assistant chief of the Westhampton Beach Fire Department.