New York Governor Kathy Hochul has ordered a burn ban for the area in the wake of the fires. She prohibited most types of ...

Wind-driven brush fires that burned on New York’s Long Island over the weekend, injuring two firefighters and sending large ...

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

Over 80 volunteer fire departments from across the country battled the fire and managed to contain it within 24 hours.

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.

NEW YORK (AP) — Multiple brush fires that burned across a wooded area of Long Island over the weekend were accidentally caused by a family's attempt to make s'mores, Suffolk County police said Monday.

Investigators say embers from a backyard fire spread rapidly, fueling blazes that prompted evacuations and an emergency burn ...

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

Following brush fires in Long Island, Gov. Kathy Hochul issued a burn ban until March 16, when New York’s annual statewide ...

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

ALBANY — A new poll shows that New Yorkers’ growing opposition to President Donald Trump’s performance in his first weeks in ...