2010 New York Code
ENV - Environmental Conservation
Article 9 - LANDS AND FORESTS
Title 11 - (9-1101 - 9-1123) FOREST FIRE CONTROL
9-1111 - Forest fire protection.

§ 9-1111. Forest fire protection.
    1. Towns adjacent to fire towns and fire districts. The department may
  when  necessary  in its judgment, in order to protect the forests in the
  fire towns and fire districts from fire, take steps to extinguish  fires
  actually burning in any town adjacent to a fire town or district.
    2. Impressing fire fighting assistance. Any department employee or any
  other  officer  charged by the department with the duty of fire fighting
  shall, notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to  the  contrary
  or  in  conflict  herewith,  have  the  power to summon and hire for the
  purpose of fighting fires any person who  shall  have  attained  sixteen
  years  of  age,  and  to  incur  other  expenses deemed necessary to the
  extinguishment of particular fires.
    3. Additional protection by towns in Suffolk county. Any town  in  the
  county  of Suffolk may appropriate not exceeding the sum of one thousand
  dollars in any one year without the vote of town meeting for the purpose
  of purchasing equipment and establishing fire patrols for the prevention
  of forest fires within any such town. The patrols and equipment shall be
  under  the  direction  and  supervision  of  the  town   board.   Moneys
  appropriated  pursuant to this subdivision shall be assessed, levied and
  collected in the same manner  as  moneys  for  other  town  charges  are
  assessed, levied and collected.