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

New York firefighters are responding to large-scale brush wildfires in Long Island’s Pine Barrens, about 80 miles east of Manhattan as videos across social media showed thick plums of gray smoke above roads and highways.

Governor Hochul said emergency workers were responding to the fires around the Pine Barrens, a wooded area that is home to commuter towns east of New York City.