Investigators believe the initial backyard blaze started when a Long Island resident used cardboard to ignite a fire to make ...

Investigators tasked with determining the cause of the widespread Long Island brush fires over the weekend have linked the blazes to a backyard fire in Manorville.

An attempt to make s'mores accidentally sparked the massive brush fires that impacted the East End of Long Island, Suffolk County police said Monday.

A family attempting to make s’mores in their backyard accidentally sparked several brush fires that burned hundreds of acres ...

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

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

New York's governor triggered a burn ban for the area. She issued a prohibition on most types of outside camping, cooking and ...

The fires broke out in the same vicinity of the Pine Barrens in which a much worse wind-driven blaze devastated thousands of acres along the Sunrise Highway in the late summer of 1995. Drought ...

Firefighters in New York continued to battle at least one brush fire in a wooded stretch of Long Island on Sunday.

An arson investigation is underway on Long Island after a series of brush fires over the weekend injured at least two ...