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

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

The fight from above is critical in giving firefighters a chance to get some semblance of control over the fires, said one ...

The eye-popping substance coating streets, cars and surfaces is actually fire retardant, dropped by aerial firefighting tankers in massive plumes of red or pink. Unlike water drops, which target ...

As fire crews and air tankers work to block the wildfires' explosive growth, images of red clouds of fire retardant falling onto trees are common. What is it — and what's in it?

Los Angeles’s rich and famous are facing growing criticism for using private firefighters and personal fire hydrants to ...

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

A firefighting aircraft drops Phos-Chek pink fire retardant on Pacific Palisades on Jan. 7 (Image credit: Mario Tama/Staff via Getty Images) It's hard to measure the efficiency of fire retardant ...

Strong winds can make it too dangerous to fly at the low altitudes needed for drops and can dissipate the retardant before it hits the ground. Besides Cal Fire, multiple agencies have dropped fire ...

The people flying planes and tankers involved in dousing blazes face hot, sweaty, turbulent conditions — and the risk that ...

A plane drops pink flame retardant during the Eaton Fire in Los Angeles, California on Monday (Jan. 13). | Credit: Benjamin Fanjoy/Bloomberg via Getty Images Pink fire retardant is raining from ...