Fire Island is the large center island of the outer barrier islands adjacent to the south shore of Long Island, New York. It is approximately 50 kilometers long (31 miles) and varies between 160 and 400 meters (520 and 1,300 ft) broad. Fire Island is part of Suffolk County. It contains a number of hamlets, census-designated places (CDPs), and villages, all of which lie within the towns of Islip, Brookhaven and Babylon.
The land area of Fire Island is 22.5 square kilometers (8.7 sq mi). According to the 2010 census, there is a permanent population of 292, expanding to hundreds of thousands of residents and tourists during the summer months.
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“Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present.”
—William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879)
“I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)