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BANNING, Calif. (KESQ) - Firefighters are getting the upper hand on the Wolf Fire burning south of Banning. The brushfire is at 35 percent contained and has burned more than 2,400 acres. This progress ...

Pink fire retardant is raining from the skies in Los Angeles as firefighters try everything they can to contain several ...

Flame retardants slow the spread of fires but they can have serious, unintended human health and environmental impacts. Inadequate toxicity testing and inconsistent regulations make it difficult to ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- Add another concern for the tanker plane pilots who barnstorm low over treacherous terrain, in vintage aircraft, to bomb fire retardant around raging mountain wildfires: endangered ...

More than 50,000 gallons of pink and red fire retardant rained from the sky near Beacon Hill on Tuesday to slow the spread of the Upriver fire. The mixture of phosphate salts and clay coated trees, ...

Authorities battling a series of large wildfires in the Los Angeles area have employed a bright red fire retardant to tamp the flames, leading to dramatic images of the material blanketing scores of ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) – Forest Service officials insist firefighting won’t be hindered by new rules meant to prevent millions of gallons of retardant dropped onto scorched landscapes each year from ...