The red color comes from iron oxide, which doesn't play a role in fire suppression but helps make the material visible from ...

Air tankers are dropping thousands of gallons of red flame retardant in the hills around Los Angeles as firefighters attempt to limit the devastation from multiple wildfires. Images of vivid red ...

Air tankers dropped gallons of bright red and Barbie-pink slurry over forests ... vivid against the grey smoke and charred landscape, is a fire retardant, a substance that is used to slow down ...

Fire-resistant walls, roofs ... The goal was to streamline rebuilding in the L.A. County fire zones by cutting red tape. More than 16,000 homes, businesses and other structures were destroyed ...