Air tankers are dropping thousands of gallons of red flame retardant in the hills around ... Air tankers and chemical fire retardants have been used since the 1950s, allowing firefighters to ...

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 ...

For most of Southern California, red flag warnings were ending at 6 p.m. Wednesday night, meaning the danger of strong winds fanning and spreading wildfire flames ... from the fire weather ...