Update, Sept. 29, 1:45 a.m.: Firefighters extinguished the blaze at the Creeks sometime before 1 a.m. on Saturday. 

East Hampton Village Police Chief Mike Tracey, who responded after the fire was reported on Ron Perelman's property just before 9:55 p.m., said that security staff told 911 dispatchers that the attic was ablaze. Mr. Perelman, a billionaire investor and philanthropist, was not at the house when the fire broke out, only his staff, the chief added. 

Several Fire Departments from Montauk to Southampton assisted the East Hampton Fire Department in fighting the flames, which could been seen shooting out of the roof. Firefighters attacked the blaze from inside and out, using aerial ladder trucks to douse the flames. 

Firefighters on the second floor were ordered out of the building by senior officers, at least twice, though it was unclear why. When the fire was controlled, Mr. Perelman's staff removed artwork from the first floor.  

No injuries were reported, Chief Tracey said. 

Fire officials are working to determine the cause, the Chief said. 

Montauk Highway was closed between Stephen Hand's Path and Wainscott-Northwest Road for several hours as firefighters stretched hose across the highway and went in and out of the nearly 60-acre property, which has a main and service entrance on Montauk Highway. 

Photos Courtesy of the East Hampton Fire Department 

Originally, Sept. 28, 10:46 p.m.: A fire broke out in the attic at the main house at the Creeks, Ron Perelman's East Hampton estate on Friday night. Flames were reportedly through the roof on one side of the house. 

The East Hampton Fire Department responded at 9:51 p.m. to a working structure fire at 291 Montauk Highway, the billionaire investor and philanthropist's nearly 60-acre estate on Georgica Pond. 

Police shut down Montauk Highway between Stephen Hand's Path and Wainscott-Northwest Road. Firefighters stretched hose across the highway at Stephen Hand's Path.

East Hampton fire chiefs called for help from several neighboring districts. The Sag Harbor Fire Department brought in its rapid intervention team, used to standby to rescue firefighters inside if need be, but the Sag Harbor team was soon deployed to as interior firefighters as the blaze progressed. The Southampton Fire Department's rapid intervention team was called in around 10:30 p.m., and a ladder truck was requested from Sag Harbor, as well. A few minutes later, Montauk was asked for its hose truck and its rapid intervention team. The Amagansett Fire Department had also been asked to provide an engine and manpower.

At about 10:35 p.m., firefighters were told to pull out of the building. It was unclear why. 

The Springs Fire Department is standing by at East Hampton's firehouse. 

The East Hampton Village Ambulance Association is also on the scene. The Ladies Auxiliary responded with water and Gatorade as refreshments for the firefighters. 

This is a developing story. Check back for more information as it becomes available.

Kilkare, the iconic 1879 house that sits dramatically moored atop a 3.42-acre swath of bluff and dunes on the Georgica oceanfront in Wainscott, has hit the market again with a different real estate agent and a notably amended listing that shows the property actually has about one half-acre and 1,500 more square feet than the original listings stated last year.

The seven-bedroom, seven-and-a-half-bath house — the location for movies such as “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” and “The Nanny Diaries” and a frequently mentioned landmark in books and historical tales — is now listed at 6,493 square feet. It is part of the exclusive Georgica Association and remains priced at $45 million, down from its original $55 million a year ago.

Kilkare sits just 50 feet from the ocean and is buttressed by a stone revetment — two features that wouldn’t be allowed today. It also offers nine fireplaces, 332 feet of water frontage, a heated 60-foot pool, and meditation garden with a waterside viewing platform.

“It’s a rare opportunity to find a property like this that has the history, provenance, and positioning that this home does,” said Michael Cantwell, chief marketing officer for Bespoke Real Estate, which is now handling the listing. “It has a view on one side as the sun rises over Georgica Pond and a view to the west as the sun is setting. It’s captivating.”

Eleanora Kennedy and her late husband, Michael Kennedy, a prominent trial lawyer who defended clients such as John Gotti, Timothy Leary, the Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton, and Ivana Trump in her divorce from Donald Trump, became only the second owners of the house in 1975. 

The Trumps rented a small saltbox that used to be part of the grounds for seven years, beginning when they were newlyweds. The Kennedys’ daughter, Anna, was married on the property. The Kennedys loved to entertain, and Kilkare was the frequent site of large, star-studded parties frequented by authors and celebrities. Billy Joel sometimes played the piano into the night. Candice Bergen and Kurt Vonnegut would swing by.

Fog dramatically shrouds Kilkare some mornings. Other days, the unobstructed 360-degree views are startlingly clear and the ocean shimmers and the sound of crashing waves drift into the beachfront rooms. Even the property’s name, which the Kennedys invented, is evocative: Kilkare, they liked to say, represented “a mythical Irish town where all your cares fade away.”

Ms. Kennedy put the house on the market last summer, about 18 months after her husband died. Before the Kennedys, Kilkare had remained in the same family since Camilla and Walter Edwards commissioned ship carpenters to build it in 1877 — an apparently fortuitous choice, given the minimal damage the house suffered during the infamous 1938 Hurricane, which damaged many neighboring houses.

Still, that relatively humble provenance, the fact the house doesn’t boast a big-name architect such as Stanford White or John Russell Pope to protect its survival, has preservationists worried that new owners will come in and demolish it. Then its array of period features — the chevron-ribbed ceilings, the wide-plank pumpkin pine floors, the grand staircase with the widened treads to accommodate women wearing Victorian gowns — would be lost to history.

Even Ms. Kennedy, whom Bespoke declined to make available for comment, acknowledged to The New York Times a year ago that she suspected the house would appeal to three kinds of buyers: someone who “will love it the way it is,” someone who will modernize it, or “someone who will come with a wrecking ball.” 

Upon purchase in 1975, Ms. Kennedy promised the seller, Kitty Edwards, a descendant of the original owners, not to disturb the house’s essential character. The Kennedys honored the vow during the renovations they did undertake.

They skipped adding air-conditioning and decided to continue relying on breezes from Kilkare’s 85 windows to avoid dramatically disturbing the layout. They added bathrooms, converted a butler’s pantry into part of an enlarged eat-in kitchen with a new fireplace, freshened the paint and floors, and repaired the plaster. Otherwise, they left the house pretty much undisturbed.

But will current buyers love the house as is, as the Kennedys did?

Mr. Cantwell said demolishing Kilkare is probably “not the way this is going to go down.”

“What’s more likely,” he said, is that a new buyer will appreciate how the 3.42-acre size of the property allows them to build a significantly sized new structure and keep Kilkare standing, because, “They could modernize the interior. . . . But they wouldn’t be able to re-build exactly where it is now.” 

“Whatever happens is going to be taste-specific,” Mr. Cantwell said. “This property is rare, of significant size. It’s priced to sell. And if we can find the right person for it, all the better.” 

An all-day workshop on human trafficking for law enforcement, medical, mental health, and legal professionals, as well as first responders, civil servants, and educators, will be held Fridaytomorrow at the Stony Brook Southampton campus. Thursday from 7 to 9, there will be a program for the larger community, offering an overview of the problem “to help participants gain an increased awareness and understanding of how this crime occurs in our community,” according to a release. 

Both tonight’s program and tomorrow’s training session are presented as a collaboration by the Retreat, the Shinnecock Community Health Worker Program, the Shinnecock Substance Abuse Mobilization Project, the Greek Orthodox Church of the Hamptons, OLA of Eastern Long Island, and the Stony Brook University School of Social Welfare. The focus is on “what we can do as professionals and/or community members to respond,” said Pam Greinke, director of advocacy at the Retreat.

Presenters tomorrow include Jeri Moomaw, executive director of Innovations HTC, a human rights organization working to eradicate sex and labor trafficking in the United States; Dr. Makini Chisolm-Straker of the department of emergency medicine at Mount Sinai Brooklyn, and Roxanne White, an indigenous outreach coordinator with Innovations HTC. The training session will run from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Chancellors Hall. The cost is $35, including breakfast, lunch, and a snack. Registration is at humantraffickingli.eventbrite.com.

A parole board denied Sean P. Ludwick, who is serving prison time for the drunken-driving crash that killed his passenger in 2015, in his first attempt at parole earlier this month, citing a “lack of empathy and shallow remorse,” according to the decision released by the New York State Department of Corrections this week.

Mr. Ludwick, a Manhattan real estate developer, who will turn 46 at the Gowanda Correctional Facility on Sunday, was sentenced to three to nine years in August 2017, two years after the accident that left 53-year-old Paul Hansen of Noyac dead. Mr. Ludwick had pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of a fatal accident, as well as misdemeanor drunken driving.

After a night of drinking, Mr. Hansen got a ride home with Mr. Ludwick, who police said sped down the cul-de-sac Mr. Hansen lived on in Noyac and lost control of his 2013 Porsche. He crashed into a utility pole about 100 feet from Mr. Hansen’s home, where Mr. Ludwick’s son was having a sleepover with Mr. Hansen’s son. 

Mr. Ludwick tried to flee, prosecutors said at sentencing, and dragged Mr. Hansen’s body from the wrecked car. Mr. Ludwick only made it a couple of hundred yards before the car would go no farther. 

“That, in my eyes, is his crime,” Susan Hansen Morrissey, Mr. Hansen’s twin sister, said by phone yesterday. “It was a very unfortunate accident. It was what he did afterward that is his crime,” she said. “He certainly has not had enough time to sit there and think about what he did.” 

Ms. Morrissey was among the family members and friends who wrote to the parole board about why Mr. Ludwick should not be released on parole. She said the family was notified this summer that he was eligible for a parole hearing.

Mr. Ludwick, a former managing partner and a founder of BlackHouse Development, appeared before the parole board on Sept. 4, but the board did not issue its determination that parole  had been denied until a week or so later. 

“The panel was struck despite . . . your lengthy presentation and your acknowledgement that this crime impacted ‘his children and my children,’ ” the decision said. “You failed to apologize to the family for the harm you caused. This lack of empathy and shallow remorse for the harm is a concern and leads us to conclude your rehabilitation is not complete.” 

While his risk of recidivism was noted as being “uniformly low,” his “re-entry substance abuse scores” were listed as probable. 

The decision said that Mr. Ludwick admitted to drinking five cocktails before the crash and he had an elevated blood alcohol level even four hours after the crash. When blood was drawn then it showed a reading of .18 of 1 percent, more than double the legal limit.  

In making its decision, the parole board said it considered Mr. Ludwick’s relapse-prevention plan, his letter to the board, multiple letters of support, and a letter from his attorney — all of which were not released by the Department of Corrections. The panel also reviewed sentencing minutes and his past criminal record, which included harassment and drinking and driving. 

The panel pointed out that the judge at sentencing had noted “the extent of the community’s grief.”

During the parole hearing, Mr. Ludwick “explained in great lengths the events of that night and your actions from that time until the plea was entered and you were then incarcerated,” the decision said.

Though Mr. Ludwick is only a year into his sentence, he has been behind bars since February 2016. He was initially out on a $1 million bond while awaiting trial, when officials said he tried to flee the country following an indictment. He had been in Puerto Rico, where he took sailing lessons and searched the internet for countries without extradition treaties with the United States. 

At the time of Mr. Ludwick’s sentencing, it was reported that Catherine Hansen, Mr. Hansen’s widow and the mother of his two sons, had initiated a wrongful death suit against Mr. Ludwick. It is believed that that case was settled. Her lawyer, Scott D. Middleton of Campolo, Middleton & Associates, did not immediately return a call for comment on Tuesday.  

Had Mr. Ludwick’s parole been approved this time, he could have been released in January of 2019. Ms. Morrissey said her family was “heartened by the parole board’s decision” to keep him behind bars. 

Mr. Ludwick, who is serving his time in a medium-security prison in Erie County, is eligible to go before the parole board again in March of 2020.

A grand jury indicted Andrew D. Hellman of East Hampton on charges related to a drunken driving accident in Montauk that left an East Hampton Town police officer injured on Labor Day weekend. 

Mr. Hellman was indicted on criminal possession of narcotics with intent to sell, second-degree assault, criminal possession of a controlled substance (cocaine), all felonies, three misdemeanors, driving while intoxicated and two counts of reckless endangerment, and unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation.

The seven-count indictment was unsealed in Suffolk County Criminal Court last Thursday; the grand jury had handed it down on Sept. 7. 

East Hampton Town Police Officer Andrew Nimmo saw Mr. Hellman in a group that appeared intoxicated get into a sport utility vehicle in front of the Montauk 7-Eleven on Sept. 1 at about 4:45 a.m. The officer began to question Mr. Hellman, who was behind the wheel, but he sped away, according to a criminal complaint filed earlier this month. 

Mr. Hellman drove out of the parking lot onto Montauk Highway, lost control of his 2001 GMC and crashed about 100 yards away, rolling the S.U.V. on its side. Neither he nor his four passengers were hurt. Officer Nimmo was treated and released from the hospital that day. 

Police said they found cocaine in 20 plastic bags and a small glass bottle in the vehicle — enough to justify a charge of drug possession with intent to sell. The aggregate weight of the cocaine was one-eighth ounce or more, the complaint said. Mr. Hellman also reportedly had five pills believed to be Adderall, one believed to be Vyvanse, and two halves of a pill believed to be alprazolam. 

He pleaded not guilty Monday at his arraignment, according to online court records. Justice Stephen L. Braslow set bail at $500,000 cash and $250,000 bond. Mr. Hellman is due back in court on Oct. 4.

“We have reserved our right to make a bail application pending certain conditions including, but not limited to, a proper evaluation of the defendant,” said Peter Mayer of Reynolds, Caronia, Gianelli & La Pinta. Mr. Mayer recently retired as a Supreme Court justice.

An East Hampton attorney who pleaded guilty in April to stealing more than $750,000 from a co-worker and two clients of Bainton Lynch, a now defunct East Hampton law firm of which he was a partner, was sentenced on Tuesday to the eight charges he was facing, including grand larceny and identity theft.

Kyle Thomas Lynch had been arrested on Feb. 8, 2017, after a year-and-a-half, multi-agency investigation. He pleaded guilty to all eight charges, six of them felonies.

Justice Mark Cohen of State Supreme Court in Riverside sentenced Mr. Lynch to two to six years, but he is to serve most of the sentence on parole if he completes the State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Willard Drug Treatment Program in Seneca County. He would serve the remainder of the sentence in prison if he failed to successfully complete the program or otherwise violated parole.

Among the offenses to which he pleaded guilty are stealing more than $580,000 from the estate of a client, Helen Chalmers, an Orient woman who Mr. Lynch said had died in a fall in her home in 2013. The money was to be held in escrow during a real-estate transaction and later given to community groups and relatives cited in Ms. Chalmers’s will. Instead, Mr. Lynch used the money for himself after unlawfully putting it in his firm’s business account.

He had also pleaded guilty to using the identity of Carl Irace, a former associate attorney in the defunct law firm who now is a well-known lawyer here, to open two credit cards. Investigators found Mr. Lynch had charged more than $60,000 to one card and more than $24,000 to the other. 

After Mr. Irace reported Mr. Lynch to authorities, his complaint, along with a 2014 interview that Mr. Lynch gave to The Suffolk Times about Ms. Chalmers, which was contested by some of the newspaper’s readers, led authorities to discover Mr. Lynch’s other crimes, which police said began in 2014 and continued into 2015. Among them, Mr. Lynch stole about $85,000 from an escrow account being held for a third victim, Thomas Rudegeair. 

In court Tuesday, Mr. Lynch said he has had suicidal tendencies and been submitting voluntarily to electric shock treatments to correct a “chemical imbalance” for which he also takes medication.

Mr. Irace also was in court when Mr. Lynch was sentenced but declined to comment when reached later by phone. Mr. Lynch’s attorney, Eric Besso of Sayville, also declined comment.

The Sept. 13 Democratic Party primary election did more than formalize East Hampton Town Councilman David Lys as the party's nominee in the Nov. 6 general election; registered Democrats also had a choice of candidates for the town's Democratic Committee, including a number identifying as Reform Democrats, which its standard-bearer, David Gruber, described as a caucus within the party. 

Voters selected two of either three or four candidates to represent their respective election district. Reform Democrats are identified below, while candidates who ran with support of both the party faithful and the Reform caucus are marked with an asterix. The winners of the Sept. 13 vote are as follows, by election district:

E.D. 1 (East Hampton)

Jeanne Frankl

Barbara Ann Layton (Reform)

E.D. 2 (Sag Harbor)

Suzanne McNear

Andrew Malone (Reform)

E.D. 3 (Amagansett)

Arthur Schiff

David Hillman

E.D. 4 (Springs)

Zach Cohen *

Loring Bolger *

E.D. 5 (East Hampton)

Jim Lubetkin

Ira Barocas *

E.D. 6 (Montauk)

Lawrence Smith

Sharon McCobb

E.D. 7 (Wainscott)

Susan McGraw Keber

David Gruber (Reform)

E.D. 8 (East Hampton)

Jerry Mulligan

Mary Busch

E.D. 9 (Springs)

Francis Bock *

Annemarie McCoy

E.D. 10 (Montauk)

Sally Richardson

Andy Harris

E.D. 11 (East Hampton)

Vicki Luria Blatt

Andrew Strong (Reform)

E.D. 12 (Amagansett)

Betty Mazur

Anna Skrenta

E.D. 13 (East Hampton)

Joan McGivern

Ben Dollinger

E.D. 14 (East Hampton)

J.B. Dos Santos

Viral Patel

E.D. 15 (Springs)

Cate Rogers

Christopher Kelley

E.D. 16 (East Hampton)

Marilyn Van Scoyoc

Tim Garneau

E.D. 17 (Springs)

Bette Smith

Pamela Bicket *

E.D. 18 (Montauk)

Edna Steck

Laura Michaels

E.D. 19 (Montauk)

Connie Cortese

Lou Cortese

Concerned Citizens of Montauk on Friday confirmed a new bloom of cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, in the northern part of Montauk's Fort Pond, and has urged people to avoid contact with the water and to keep their pets away from it "due to potential health concerns."

The latest bloom was detected in sampling the organization did on Wednesday. This follows confirmation last week of a harmful algal bloom detected in the southern part of the pond. At that time -- on Sept. 5 -- the northern part of the pond showed an elevated risk of a bloom.

"Blue-green algal blooms produce toxins that can cause health risks to people and animals," C.C.O.M. wrote in a release on Friday.

Cyanobacteria is naturally present in low numbers in streams and lakes, but the microcystin toxins it produces in higher concentrations can cause nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea; skin, eye, or throat irritation, and allergic reactions or breathing difficulties. Those who have come in contact with the water in affected ponds are advised to rinse with clean water and seek medical attention if they experience any of those symptoms.

C.C.O.M. is monitoring the pond in partnership with Christopher Gobler of Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences.

While concentrations of the microcystin toxin at the northern and southern testing sites in Fort Pond are below both the drinking water and recreational use guidelines, "caution should still be taken around the pond," C.C.O.M. said on Friday.

In its release, the organization also noted that the Fort Pond blooms would not be listed on the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation's harmful algal bloom notifications web page because the D.E.C. "uses a slightly higher threshold for bloom status . . . than that used by the Gobler lab," which is based at Stony Brook Southampton.

A teenager who was charged in February with raping a young woman in the parking lot at the Springs School in the presence of a child pleaded guilty to the charges on Friday. 

Bryan Siranaula, 18, of Springs, who was an East Hampton High School senior at the time, entered the plea in Suffolk County Criminal Court. 

According to online court records, he admitted to first-degree forcible rape and aggravated sexual abuse, felonies; and to misdemeanor charges of criminal obstruction of breathing, acting in a manner injurious to a child under 17, third-degree assault, and criminal impersonation second degree by internet. A second rape charge was dismissed. 

State Supreme Court Justice Barbara Kahn is due to sentence him on Nov. 8.   

On Feb. 4, according to East Hampton Town police, Mr. Siranaula, who worked as a seasonal traffic control officer, persuaded the woman to wait for him at the school via a text message in which he pretended to be someone else. State law protects her identity.

  Officials said the two had a prior relationship, but were no longer in contact. 

Mr. Siranaula was accused of dragging the woman from her car in front of a 7-year-old relative who was with her. The rape allegedly took place in his Nissan. Afterward, prosecutors said during his arraignment in criminal court, he allowed her to go back to her car to comfort the child, who was watching from her car and sobbing. She told police she gave the child a video to watch and that Mr. Siranaula then forced her back to his vehicle and raped her again. 

A grand jury indicted him shortly after his arrest. About 25 of his friends and relatives were in the courtroom when the indictment was unsealed, in a show of support for him. He has been free on $50,000 cash bail since Feb. 16. 

While a conviction on a charge of rape in the first degree calls for a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in state prison and a maximum of 25, Mr. Siranaula could receive youthful offender status, meaning that his criminal record could be sealed. 

Daniel G. Rodgers, his attorney, declined to comment.

The East Hampton Town Police Department is investigating an accident near the East Hampton Town recycling center on Springs-Fireplace Road that left a 74-year-old man dead Sunday morning.

The two-vehicle accident was reported at 9:40 a.m.

Police said Juan C. Chitarroni of East Hampton was driving his 2016 Chevrolet south on Springs-Fireplace Road when he struck a 2013 Toyota traveling north. 

Police Chief Michael Sarlo said that emergency medical workers had performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on one of the victims as an ambulance headed to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital left the scene.

The East Hampton Village Ambulance Association took Mr. Chitarroni to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. 

Lieutenant Peter Powers said in a press release that police believe Mr. Chitarroni experienced some sort of medical emergency before the accident. 

The driver of the Toyota was taken to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital with non-life threatening injuries. 

East Hampton Fire Department's heavy rescue squad was called to the accident, which left Springs-Fireplace Road closed for about four hours.

Detectives are continuing to investigate and have asked that anyone who may have witnessed the accident contact them at 631-537-7575. All calls will be kept confidential. 

It was a busy morning for town police who were already investigating a serious accident in Springs.

A motorcyclist is in critical condition after he crashed into a tree on Three Mile Harbor-Hog Creek Road at about 5:25 a.m. Police said he was driving while intoxicated.