New Delhi, March 9 -- Fast-moving wildfires burned through a large swath of land on New York's Long Island on Saturday. Four wildfires that erupted at the edge of the Hamptons Saturday - sending residents into a panic.

Fanned by high winds, the wildfire caused thick gray smoke spewing into the sky and prompting the evacuation of a military base and the closure of a major highway.

The fires - in Center Moriches, East Moriches, Eastport and Westhampton - blanketed part's of Long Island's East End shortly after 1 pm, filling the sky with thick black smoke, threatening homes in middle class communities and wealthy parts of the Hampton, the New York Post reported.

Officials were quoted by the Associated Press as saying that three of the fou...