A volunteer firefighter on Long Island is accused of intentionally setting fires that burned through a wooded area.Suffolk County police said 20-year-old Jonathan Quiles, of Medford, was arrested on charges of arson and reckless endangerment.

A Medford volunteer firefighter was arrested Tuesday for intentionally setting a brush fire in the community, Suffolk County police said. Jonathan Quiles, 20, of Meyer Lane, is accused of lighting a fire in a wooded area on Mount Vernon Avenue at about 3:35 p.m. Tuesday, police said in a news release.

Jonathan Quiles, a volunteer firefighter on Long Island, was arrested after being accused of intentionally sparking a brush fire in Medford.

A volunteer firefighter on Long Island, New York, was arrested on Tuesday after authorities said he intentionally started a brush fire.

A Long Island volunteer firefighter was arrested Tuesday night after allegedly confessing to having started one of the brush fires that swept through the town of Medford earlier in the day. It took firefighters six hours to put out a half-dozen small brush fires in Medford on Tuesday — and at least one of the blazes was allegedly started by Medford volunteer firefighter Jonathan Quiles,