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

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

With the last of four Long Island wildfires under control in Westhampton, authorities are now looking for causes. Suffolk County Police Commissioner Kevin Catalina said 25 detectives are involved ...

Controlled fires could start in the coming days in five state forests in the Long Island pine barrens from Rocky Point to Westhampton, state environmental officials said. During a burn season that ...

Dozens of restaurants are teaming up for the launch of a new program, Long Island Wings it Forward, to raise money for firefighters following the Hamptons brush fires spark earlier this month.

The new hotel called Three Ducks is a redevelopment of the former Seabreeze Motel. Manhattan-based Three Ducks Hospitality ...

The flames quickly moved to East Moriches, Eastport, and then Westhampton ... to battle brush fires in the Pine Barrens. At its peak, the wildfire stretched two miles long and 2.5 miles wide ...

George Urich, 83, was the sole victim in a raging fire that tore through his Island Park home on Sunset Avenue early Monday, March 17, Nassau County Police confirmed days later. The massive blaze had ...

Gabreski Airport in Westhampton. A massive response led by some 600 volunteers from 80 Long Island fire departments, augmented by another 10 ambulance companies, held the fire at bay, limiting ...

The Westhampton Pines Fire, as it is now being called ... In the days after the fire, staff of the Long Island Pine Barrens Society, an environmental non-profit, reported seeing “hundreds of seeds ...