Controlled or prescribed fires have been used on Long Island since the 1995 Sunrise Fire near Westhampton to improve habitats ...

Evacuating the Tahoe basin in summer could take 14 hours, and 99% of properties are at risk — yet new resorts are being built ...

Firefighters will continue to vigorously fight accidental wildfires, even in the region's least dense areas, a Suffolk fire ...

Albany County Executive Dan McCoy holds up signed paperwork after he and Pine Hills land Authority CEO ... He previously covered police, fire and accidents as the paper’s breaking news reporter.

The Truckee Town Council has adopted a pair of resolutions objecting to cuts made at the federal level during their Tuesday meeting.

A 5-year-old is dead and a 1-year-old was seriously injured after an RV caught fire in Port Angeles Sunday night. According to the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office, deputies and firefighters ...

“So, my thank you, particularly to the volunteers that all showed up that helped us contain this fire.” Hochul declared a state of emergency in the county Saturday amid brush fires in the Pine ...

including in the Pine Barrens, a state nature preserve. The flames had been extinguished by Sunday morning, Suffolk County Fire Coordinator Rudy Sunderman said at a news conference, with officials ...

Brush fires have erupted in Long Island and near Brooklyn as strong winds in New York created an elevated fire risk Saturday ... s Suffolk County amid brush fires in the Pine Barrens, she said ...

Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency and said state agencies were responding to the fires around the Pine ... Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine said. “It is driving this fire.” ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A row of homes that previously lined the north side of Hamilton Street in Sinton is gone after San Patricio County Judge David Krebs said the Welder Fire claimed about 20 ...