It’s widely used because it can slow flames in ways that water can’t. But it also contains heavy metals and other harmful ...

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

Environmentalists are warning that the pink fire retardants used in California may pose severe health and environmental risks ...

Some of the visuals coming out of Los Angeles County over the past week show a vivid pink substance coating streets, cars and ...

Environmental experts have said that spraying fire retardant using planes is ineffective, expensive and a growing source of ...

to prove where a heavy metal came from," McCurry said. "We're working on that." Perimeter, the manufacturer of the Forest Service's fire retardant, said McCurry's research was on a formulation ...

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

Pink fire retardant is raining from the skies in Los ... Letters found that long-term fire retardants contained toxic metals, including lead, arsenic and thallium. The researchers, from the ...

The aerial retardant cools and coats anything flammable ... California who was part of the research team that found metals in fire retardants, told NPR that people in a fire zone likely have ...

The pink fire retardant dropped on wildfires in California may pose serious ... As a report in the New York Times pointed out, scientists warn that the retardants contain heavy metals and other ...

The Palisades and Eaton fires destroyed thousands of homes but left some still standing through a combination of fortunate ...