The brushfires that ignited in eastern Suffolk County, Long Island, New York on March 8th are 100 percent knocked down according to a March 10th report from News 12 Long island. I believe that they are at or near containment but firefighters may still be building line to surround the fires. Firefighters continued to work these fires on March 9th. Officials may have evidence that the fire was started accidentally on Saturday morning, March 8th be people who light a campfire in their backyard. Firefighters remain on the scene of these brushfires putting out hotspots and doing other mop-up work. You may also want to read this May 10th article on these brushfires from GreaterLongIsland dot com. For those of you who are interested, the March 10th report from News 12 Long Island includes a 25 minute video of a news conference earlier today.
I thank all the firefighters and others who responded to these fires and for keeping the residents of the east end of Long Island safe. Nice going!
Added on March 12th: There has been much coverage in various media about how the four brush fires in Eastern Long Island started. If you are interested you can go the links that I supplied in this post, or you can probably find coverage elsewhere.
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