A study by the University of Southern California estimates hundreds of thousands of pounds of toxic metals have been dumped onto forests during aerial fire retardant drops during the past decade ...

a citrus-based fire retardant. On April 24, Richard Stennes, a resident of Calle del Oro in La Jolla, held an impromptu meeting about the spray, which is applied to brush and trees in canyons and ...

firefighting aircraft began drawing bright red lines with fire retardant across the Santa Monica Mountains, in an effort to slow and contain the flames. By the time the fire was out about three ...

DC TEN WAS SENT THROUGH THE AIR, DROPPING DOWN FIRE RETARDANT, AND THE VERY NEXT DAY, CREWS RETURNED TO THIS HOME TO CREATE A FIRE BARRIER AROUND HER PROPERTY USING A BULLDOZER TAKING OUT SOME OF ...

Los Angeles-based KB Home unveiled its Dixon Trail development in Escondido this week that it calls “wildfire resistant.” It comes with 10-foot buffers between homes, flame-resistant vents ...

Throughout the summer months, airtankers and fire-crews spray fire retardant across the territory for protection. It's a substance that makes fuel less flammable and slows a fire's progress.

Home hardening means using fire-resistant building materials and landscaping to protect buildings from heat, flames and a blast of embers during a firestorm. Here’s a brief overview of what that ...

Decks are made from a flame-resistant Brazilian hardwood. RELATED: What is ‘home hardening’? Fire-resistant walls, roofs, windows and landscaping It includes a fire-suppression system to spray ...

Four years before the Palisades and Eaton fires ravaged L.A., Irvine braced for a blaze of its own. A bone-dry summer left the landscape parched and primed to ignite as Santa Ana winds roared ...