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

Fast-moving brush fires fanned by high winds burned through a large swath of land on New York’s Long Island on Saturday, spewing thick gray smoke into the sky and prompting the evacuation of a ...

Fast-moving wildfires burned ... filling the sky with thick black smoke, threatening homes in middle class communities and wealthy parts of the Hampton, the New York Post reported.