Dozens of investigators tasked with determining the origin of Saturday's brush fires on Long Island have linked the blazes to a backyard in Manorville. Officials said Monday that the fires were ...

Law enforcement agencies are still interviewing all 911 callers to rule out any possibilities, but they "strongly feel that it was accidental." ...

Residents had told News 12 they noticed cracks and sinking shortly after the sinkholes broke essentially in their backyard. “They did a survey, and when they did the survey, they do the building ...

Wind-driven brush fires that burned on New York’s Long Island over the weekend, injuring two firefighters and sending large ...

The wildfires that broke out over the weekend on New York's Long Island, scorching hundreds of acres, are believed to have been caused by a resident making s'mores in a backyard, authorities said ...

What started as a backyard fire in Manorville, near Sunrise Highway on Long Island’s South Shore, became several blazes as strong winds contributed to the embers’ spread, officials said at a ...

SUFFOLK COUNTY, Long Island (WABC) -- Brush fires that burned ... At around 9 a.m., a resident decided to make s'mores in their backyard, but the individual making the s'mores was unable to ...

A botched attempt to make backyard s’mores caused wildfires that burned hundreds of acres on the eastern end of New York’s Long Island, area officials said Monday. Suffolk County authorities said the ...

Investigators believe the initial backyard blaze started when a Long Island resident used cardboard to ignite a fire to make s’mores and it spread quickly. The initial fire was extinguished by ...

New York's governor triggered a burn ban for the area. She issued a prohibition on most types of outside camping, cooking and warming fires in Long Island, as well as parts of the Hudson Valley amid ...