Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An air tanker drops fire retardant on a brush fire in Lytle Creek in December 2020. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times) For most ...

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 ...

Aircraft battling fires raging through the Los Angeles area are dousing the area with more than water: Hundreds of thousands of gallons of hot-pink fire suppressant have been dropped ahead of the ...

The U.S. Federal District Court of Montana heard oral arguments April 17 for the Forest Service Employees For Environmental Ethics’ lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service for the service’s ...

You’ve probably seen flame resistance mentioned in a list of product attributes and thought that it seems like an excellent feature. However, you may have also wondered about flame-resistant ...

Whether to allow fire-retardant treated wood in new construction in high fire risk zones in unincorporated areas is generating controversy. This month, Marin County supervisors signed off on ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dennis Hulbert used to set hundreds of fires in his backyard in Grass Valley. He wasn’t trying to burn his his house down. Hubert, ...

Every summer, wildland firefighters across the West gear up for a monumental task, aiming to stop fires that are burning hotter and moving faster with climate change. They accomplish this in two ways: ...

The devastating Camp Fire in 2018, along with the numerous fires north state residents have experienced since then, have led many of us to focus on creating a defensible fire-resistant landscape ...

"Commuting to work shouldn't come with a cancer risk, and children shouldn't breathe in chemicals that can harm their brains on their way to school," says Dr. Lydia Jahl, a senior scientist at the ...