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SUFFOLK COUNTY, Long Island (WABC) -- Massive, wind-whipped brush fires are raging across parts of Long Island's Pine Barrens region on Saturday, prompting a large emergency response to control ...

A previous versions of this report is below. 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 ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency in Suffolk County. Towns and communities in Long Island, New York, were on alert Saturday after brush fires spewed thick smoke into the air.

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 ...

Department of Environmental Conservation forest rangers were in the Pine Barrens on Sunday extinguishing any remaining hotspots and working to establish a full perimeter. Once that happens, the ...