Long Island, NY fires accidentally started by family making s'mores in backyard

This story doesn't seem real to me. Who is cooking s'mores in their backyard at 9:30am? And they don't mention if the people who accidentally started the fire was arrested or fined? NY Governor declared a state of emergency for this fire that caused many other fires almost reaching the Hamptons.

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ABC News, 3/10/25: A New York resident making s'mores in their backyard is suspected of accidentally igniting a series ofwildfiresover the weekend that swept through hundreds of acres of the Pine Barrens region of Long Island, authorities said Monday.

Suffolk County Police Commissioner Kevin Catalina said the "operating theory" is that a fire was started at about 9:30 a.m. ET Saturday when a resident used cardboard to start a fire to make s'mores, a confection that includes toasted marshmallows and chocolate sandwiched between graham crackers.

"The individual making s'mores was unable to get the fire lit due to the winds, but they used cardboard to initially light that fire," Catalina said during a news conference on Monday. "The person subsequently discovers that the fire does ignite in the backyard area and all goes up in fire."

Catalina said the initial fire was extinguished by 10:30 a.m., but investigators believe embers blew about an eighth of a mile southeast of the s'mores fire and started a second blaze just before 1 p.m. in the Manorville community of Suffolk County.

Northwest winds of up to 45 mph quickly spread embers from Manorville, igniting a fire in Eastport and another fire in the publicly protected Pine Barrens region of West Hampton, according to Catalina.