Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Authorities battling a series of large wildfires in the Los Angeles area have employed a bright red fire retardant to tamp the ...

PHOS-CHEK fire retardant is being used by crews battling the Aspen Acres Fire to help slow the spread of flames across ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Los Angeles County neighborhoods were painted red this week as planes flew — and continue to fly — overhead, dropping red clouds ...

A judge ruled Friday that the U.S. government can keep using chemical retardant to fight wildfires, despite finding that the practice pollutes streams in western states in violation of federal law.

A fixed-wing aircraft drops Phos-Chek on the Whittier fire in Goleta in 2017. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) It's a sight now synonymous with California's fire season: A tanker aircraft flies over ...

Thousands of gallons of fire retardant have been dropped over southern California this past week As crews battle devastating wildfires in southern California, vivid images have emerged of air tankers ...

A federal judge on Monday will hear arguments in a Montana lawsuit that seeks to curb the U.S. Forest Service’s use of aerial fire retardant to combat wildfires over concerns that it is polluting ...

CLAYTON, Missouri (July 1, 2025) – Perimeter Solutions (NYSE: PRM), a leading global manufacturer of high-quality fire retardant and firefighting foam concentrates, marked the grand opening of its new ...

BILLINGS, Mont. — A judge ruled Friday that the U.S. government can keep using chemical retardant to fight wildfires, despite finding that the practice pollutes streams in western states in violation ...

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 ...