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Brush fires erupt on Long Island's East End Helicopters have dropped nearly 700 gallons of water since the first brush fire started at around 1 p.m. Saturday in Center Moriches.
Dry conditions and powerful wind gusts on Eastern Long Island fanned a fast-moving brush fire that burned hundreds of acres and stifled traffic on Sunrise Highway for hours, but by Sunday morning ...
Long Island brush fires were caused by a resident trying to make s’mores The Westhampton Pines Fire burned approximately 600 acres before it was contained ...
Four separate weekend brush fires in eastern Suffolk County are believed to have been sparked by embers from a family attempting to make s'mores Saturday morning in their Manorville backyard ...
Massive brush fires that raged across Long Island over the weekend may have been caused by someone trying to cook s’mores for breakfast.
Rudy Sunderman, commissioner of the Suffolk County Department of Fire, Rescue and Emergency Services, said Sunday that the fires were 100% "knocked down," which means there are no visible flames.
The massive brush fire that impacted the East End of Long Island is no longer burning in Westhampton, but Forest Rangers worked all day on Sunday to contain the perimeter.
LONG ISLAND (PIX11) — More than 70 fire departments and agencies are working to extinguish a brush fire on Long Island that began Saturday afternoon. Governor Kathy Hochul declared a state of ...
Firefighters from dozens of departments are continuing their battle against the Westhampton brush fire on Sunday, after blazes spread for miles across eastern Long Island on Saturday. While some ...
A brush fire on New York’s Long Island that has burned 400 acres and prompted a response from 80 fire departments and 600 personnel is now 80% contained, according to Suffolk County officials.
A Long Island volunteer firefighter was arrested Tuesday night after allegedly confessing to having started one of the brush fires that swept through the town of Medford earlier in the day. It ...