A Long Island volunteer firefighter was arrested Tuesday night after allegedly confessing to having started one of the brush fires that swept through the town of Medford earlier in the day.

The National Weather Service has issued a Red Flag Warning for across Long Island, which is in the midst of a dry spell that ...

With rising global and ocean temperatures creating fiercer weather patterns, experts said they believe extreme weather events ...

Months of dry weather brought attention to brush fires as the seasons changed but structure fires are up, too. Some have been ...

LONG ISLAND - A volunteer firefighter on Long Island has been arrested for allegedly setting a brush fire in Suffolk County, the Medford Fire District said. The 20-year-old defendant and volunteer ...

A woman was found dead after a brush fire near the San Gabriel River in Long Beach on Sunday, Dec. 8. Fire crews extinguishing the fire discovered the body in the vicinity of 2nd Street and the ...

At 4:24 a.m. Sunday, officers with the Long Beach Police Department responded to the area of 2nd Street and the San Gabriel River to assist with a brush fire. After the Long Beach Fire Department ...

But after a long spell of dry weather and many weeks of heightened concern about outdoor brush ... dangers of fires that take place indoors. Two other fires elsewhere in Rhode Island had already ...