New York firefighters are responding to large-scale brush wildfires in Long Island’s Pine Barrens, about 80 miles east of Manhattan. The flames, which started around 1 p.m. on Saturday, have prompted evacuations and forced officials to close eastbound parts of the Sunrise Highway,

NEW YORK (AP) — Quick-moving brush fires burned through a large swath of land on New York's Long Island on Saturday, fanned by high winds that spewed thick gray smoke into the sky and prompted the evacuation of a military base and the closure of a major highway.