Los Angeles County neighborhoods were painted red this week as planes flew — and continue to fly — overhead, dropping red clouds over communities scorched from several recent wildfires, including the ...

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, 70, is a retired fire-fighting leader of the U.S. Forest Service in ...

Parts of Southern California are covered with pink fire retardant as firefighters try to control deadly wildfires raging in Los Angeles. But what is Phos-Chek fire retardant and is it safe? When you ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

Twenty-five years from today, Santa Ana winds will scream through Los Angeles on a dry autumn morning, turning a small hillside campfire into a deadly, fast-moving blaze. At that moment, the city will ...