Candle Lake fire chief Jim Arnold explains what his firefighters are seeing on the front lines and calls for much-needed ...

A study by the University of Southern California estimates hundreds of thousands of pounds of toxic metals have been dumped onto forests during aerial fire retardant drops during the past decade ...

Earlier this month, an environmental group made up of current and former Forest Service employees filed a federal lawsuit against the agency, alleging its continued use of aerial fire retardants ...

a citrus-based fire retardant. On April 24, Richard Stennes, a resident of Calle del Oro in La Jolla, held an impromptu meeting about the spray, which is applied to brush and trees in canyons and ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. — T2Earth, a sustainable building materials company, announces the launch of OnWood Plywood, an eco-friendly fire-retardant treated wood (FRTW). Made without toxic chemicals ...

Even homes built to code with fire-resistant treatments may not be enough to withstand extreme fire conditions. This raises an important question: why aren’t we building more homes with fire ...

firefighting aircraft began drawing bright red lines with fire retardant across the Santa Monica Mountains, in an effort to slow and contain the flames. By the time the fire was out about three ...

Polymer flame retardants, originally developed as a “non-toxic” alternative to banned chemicals, may be harboring a dangerous risk of their own, a new study suggests. New analysis of two polymeric ...

Throughout the summer months, airtankers and fire-crews spray fire retardant across the territory for protection. It's a substance that makes fuel less flammable and slows a fire's progress.

RELATED: What is ‘home hardening’? Fire-resistant walls, roofs, windows and landscaping It includes a fire-suppression system to spray Phos-Chek retardant over the yard. There are no overhangs ...

The clear liquid that shot out toward leaves and debris alike was a citrus-based fire retardant called Citrotech ... stages of selling cities on the spray, according to records filed with the ...

Well, as it turns out, not really. Phos-Chek, the pink fire retardant that firefighters are dropping on LA County, is actually reasonably safe for cars. It's noncorrosive, it washes off with ...