A video shows the cockpit view of California Air National Guard pilots flying low and dropping fire retardant over the Hughes Fire in Los Angeles County.

The planes can “discharge their entire load of up to 3,000 gallons of retardant in less than five seconds, covering an area one-quarter of a mile long by 100 feet wide, or they can make variable drops ...

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Different types of retardant are available in a variety of price points, but the high-end kind used in this particular home, says McDonald, is biodegradable and nontoxic—"you could drink it straight ...

"Marketplace" host Kai Ryssdal spoke to Dargan Marquis, senior wildfire adviser to the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and ...

Wildfires have been devastating the Los Angeles area for the past week, burning down over 12,000 structures in an area of over 60 square miles, resulting in the deaths of at least 25 people.

Local firefighting systems need more permanent, reliable employment, because sometimes neighboring communities, states and ...