"Behind every one of those drops is a team working around the clock to mix, load, and send aircraft back into the fight," BLM ...

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Retardant landed in water on 213 of those occasions, representing less than 1% of the roughly 56,868 retardant drops the Forest Service made during that time frame, the agency said in court documents.

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Highway closures and evacuations remain in effect as a wildfire burns more than 51,000 acres in far northern Coconino County.

Phos-Chek fire retardant is bright red for a reason, and while it's not especially toxic, you really don't want a plane to dump hundreds of gallons of it on you.

An LAist investigation found toxic heavy metals in samples of fire retardant collected from the Palisades, Eaton and Franklin fires. Here's what that means.

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 ...

Pink flame retardant is seen on a car in the Mandeville Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on Jan. 11, 2025, as the Palisades Fire continues to burn. AGUSTIN PAULLIER/AFP via Getty Images ...