California is years behind in implementing a 2020 law aiming to make it harder for homes to burn during a wildfire.

Perimeter Solutions, the company that makes the substance, explains its hot pink hue. As crews battle fires in Los Angeles, ...

The U.S. Forest Service bans the use of long-term fire retardant on federal lands near waterways or endangered species ...

Parts of Southern California are covered with pink fire retardant as firefighters try to control deadly wildfires raging in ...

Aircraft battling fires raging through the Los Angeles area are dropping hundreds of thousands of gallons of hot-pink fire ...

Aircraft battling fires raging through the Los Angeles area are dropping more than water: Hundreds of thousands of gallons of ...

Streets in Southern California were painted red this week as planes continue to fly overhead dropping red clouds over burned ...

Video footage of fire containment efforts shows a California Air National Guard plane "dropping a line of fire retardant on ...

Fire retardants, on the other hand, contain fertilizer and other ingredients that don't evaporate once the water they're mixed with is gone, delaying a fire's spread for days, weeks or longer.

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 ...