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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 of ...

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 suppressant have been dropped ahead of the ...

Flame retardants slow the spread of fires but they can have serious, unintended human health and environmental impacts. Inadequate toxicity testing and inconsistent regulations make it difficult to ...

Jeff Emery, President of Global Fire Safety at Perimeter Solutions, cut the ribbon to officially open the company's new 110,000-square-foot PHOS-CHEK® Fire Retardant production and distribution plant ...