The Suffolk County Police Department released the following statement on March 10 on the brush fires in the pine barrens this ...

Fires are tied to the history of the pine barrens, now at 105,000 acres, down from what experts believe at one time was a quarter of a million acres.

Approximately 90 fire and emergency services agencies converged on Westhampton to battle brush fires that culminated in a ...

Suffolk County Police Arson Section detectives believe the cause is related to a fire that spread following an attempt to ...

Suffolk County Police Commissioner Kevin Catalina said the "operating theory" is that a fire was started at about 9:30 a.m.

Stemming the Southern pine beetle onslaught is one way to limit the amount of dead trees that lead to new growth and more ...

The weekend wildfires that scorched hundreds of Pine Barrens acres in eastern Suffolk County this weekend was sparked … ...

Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine said last night the wildfire in the Westhampton pine barrens is nearly 80% contained. The ...

The cause of the brush fires that ravished 400 acres on Long Island’s Pine Barrens have been ruled accidental.

The wildfires began accidentally when someone in Suffolk County tried to light a fire to make s’mores, officials said. They ...

Law enforcement agencies are still interviewing all 911 callers to rule out any possibilities, but they "strongly feel that ...