Fire Island News

More than half of Fire Island’s beaches and sand dunes were lost during Superstorm Sandy, weakening the island’s ability to withstand damage from future storms, a new U.S. Geological Survey study concluded. Located in the Atlantic Ocean five miles off …

Authorities say 12 houses on New York’s Fire Island were swept to sea by the storm. Chris Soller, superintendent of the Fire Island National Seashore, said 80 percent of the remaining houses sustained some kind of damage. The Suffolk County …