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 ...

Aircraft battling fires raging through the Los Angeles area are dousing the area with more than water: Hundreds of thousands of gallons of hot-pink ... Fire, multiple agencies have dropped fire ...

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

Aircraft battling fires raging through the Los Angeles area are dropping more than water: Hundreds of thousands of gallons of hot-pink ... retardant before it hits the ground. Besides Cal Fire ...

Fire retardants are used to slow or stop wildfires. Similarly, flame retardants are used in appliances like TVs and building ...

Crews battling the deadly Los Angeles wildfires have been dropping a bright pink fire retardant across the city ahead of the advancing flames – leaving some wondering what the substance is ...

The bright substance blanketing areas of Los Angeles County has long been used to stop wildfires from spreading.

It might look like the colored corn starch used in some fun runs, but the powder being dropped by planes is actually fire ...

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?

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