Approximately 40 Riverhead firefighters, armed with three brush trucks, knocked down a quick spreading brush fire located behind a home on Edwards Avenue in Baiting Hollow Saturday afternoon. READ
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More than 12,000 gallons of water was used to extinguish a brush fire Wednesday afternoon near the train tracks off Mill Road in Riverhead, authorities at the scene said.
A small brush fire spotted by a hiker off County Road 51 in Northampton sent firefighters searching through the woods Wednesday afternoon to contain it, officials at the scene said. READ
Vince Federico was driving through Calverton with wife and young son on Saturday when they came across a sign for Prestons Pond.
Fire crews battle a brush fire at Calverton Shooting Range Monday. (Credit: Cyndi Murray)
The Brookhaven Town Fire Marshall is investigating the cause of a brush fire that spanned several acres behind the Calverton Shooting Range, according to Kevin Brooks, first assistant chief of the Riverhead Fire Department. (more…)
Firefighters on the scene of Saturday’s brush fire in Flanders. (Credit: Jen Nuzzo)
Firefighters in Flanders have been growing increasingly frustrated over the current condition of the woods there, which they say makes it difficult — and dangerous — to respond to and contain wildfires.
That frustration came to a boiling point during a fire in the Flanders woodlands Saturday that led to three brush trucks’ being damaged. Local fire chiefs then aired their grievances to RiverheadLocal.com, which published a story about the situation Sunday.
The biggest complaint concerns felled or dying oak trees, the result of a massive die-out that happened around 2008.
A Hampton Bays firetruck on the scene of Saturday’s brush fire. (Credit: Jen Nuzzo)
Firefighters battled a brush fire approximately nine acres wide for nearly two hours Saturday afternoon in Flanders, according to Flanders Fire Chief Joe Joe Pettit.
No injuries were reported and firefighters had the fire under control by around 4:45 p.m. (more…)
Flanders Fire Department volunteers fighting a much fire Tuesday afternoon. (Credit: Carrie Miller)
Firefighters were called to extinguish a brush fire hidden in the woods of a Northampton area golf course Tuesday afternoon.
Flanders, Riverhead, and East Quogue departments were all called to the Hampton Hills Golf and Country Club off County Road 31 about 3:45 p.m., said Flanders Fire Chief Joe Petit. (more…)