Fire retardants are used to slow or stop wildfires. Similarly, flame retardants are used in appliances like TVs and building ...

The powdered substance sprayed over the California wildfires is called Phos-Chek. It contains ammonium phosphate — an ...

Firefighters work to clear a firebreak on a hillside covered with pink fire retardant in Los Angeles County. The substance is used to slow down a fire's progress. (Ringo Chiu/Reuters - image credit) ...

Firefighters are tackling the raging San Diego border 2 wildfire blaze from air with pink powder as evacuation orders are ...

A woman has been charged in connection with a fire that killed two people in August. Deonna Marie Presbury, 35, faces two ...

Millions of Southern Californians are on edge as winds began picking up during a final round of dangerous fire weather ...

LOS ANGELES - Above the roaring fires devastating parts of Los Angeles is an incongruous sight: air tankers dropping gallons of bright red and Barbie-pink slurry over forest, homes, cars ...

It might look like the colored corn starch used in some fun runs, but the powder being dropped by planes is actually fire ...

But what's with the pink powder blanketing some neighbourhoods? The eye-popping substance coating streets, cars and surfaces is actually fire retardant, dropped by aerial firefighting tankers in ...

But what's with the pink powder blanketing some neighbourhoods? The eye-popping substance coating streets, cars and surfaces is actually fire retardant, dropped by aerial firefighting tankers in ...