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

WESTHAMPTON BEACH, N.Y. — 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 ...

Fire officials say there are no more visible flames from the eastern Long Island fires. The Westhampton Beach Fire Department and Suffolk Fire Rescue Emergency Services told News 12 that four ...

The Westhampton brush fire, the largest of the blazes that swept across eastern Suffolk County on Saturday, is fully knocked down, Suffolk County officials said on Sunday. Efforts are underway to ...

the Courtesy Westhampton Beach Fire Department, Westhampton Dunes constable, and the New York State Police. The Westhampton War Memorial Ambulance was on scene with an ambulance, as were East ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state ... each of the locations had been extinguished except for the fire in Westhampton. The last fire standing was roughly 50% contained, officials said.

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