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

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

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

Fire agencies say the suppressants — most often used to fight forest fires — are an invaluable tool. But what is in them and ...

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 hundreds of thousands of gallons of hot-pink fire ...

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.

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 ...

Besides Cal Fire, multiple agencies have dropped fire retardant and water, including the U.S. Forest Service, the Los Angeles and Ventura county fire departments, the city and the National Guard.

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 ...