The state and the guards' union struck a new deal to end the strike this weekend, but it was contingent on at least 85% of ...

Arson could be the cause of several wind-driven brush fires that burned on New York’s Long Island over the weekend, injuring ...

The Long Island brush fires that injured two firefighters and damaged two buildings were started by a person cooking s’mores, ...

Fire officials in Suffolk County say that a s'mores-making incident this past weekend caused some of the worst brush fires Long Island has seen in three decades.

Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency and said state agencies were responding to the fires around the Pine Barrens, ...

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

Investigators have determined that the brush fires that burned more than 400 acres of Long Island’s Pine Barrens over the weekend were caused by a family’s backyard bonfire while making s’mores. Fire ...

The wildfires began accidentally when someone in Suffolk County tried to light a fire to make s’mores, officials said. They ...

Police on Monday said the four fires likely were ignited after a family tried to make s'mores in their backyard on a windy ...