Suffolk County Police Arson Section detectives believe the cause is related to a fire that spread following an attempt to make s’mores at a home on North Cozine Road in Manorville.
The cause of the brush fires that ravished 400 acres on Long Island’s Pine Barrens have been ruled accidental.
The massive brush fire that impacted the East End of Long Island​ is no longer burning in Westhampton, but Forest Rangers worked all day on Sunday to contain the perimeter.
Fires are tied to the history of the pine barrens, now at 105,000 acres, down from what experts believe at one time was a quarter of a million acres.
All four Long Island brush fires that sent soaring plumes of smoke into the air had been contained by Sunday afternoon, authorities said. Two firefighters were hurt battling the blazes and two commercial buildings were damaged, Newsday reported. No residential buildings were damaged; any earlier reports of burned homes were erroneous.
Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine said last night the wildfire in the Westhampton pine barrens is nearly 80% contained. The county arson squad is investigating the cause of the blaze.
A New York resident making s'mores in their backyard is suspected of accidentally igniting a series of wildfires over the weekend that swept through hundreds of acres of the Pine