SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (KABC) -- At the height of wildfire season, timing is everything, and a SoCal Phos-Chek company is ready to fight back against the flames. In Southern California, wildfire ...
An aircraft drops fire retardant on the Lisa fire burning in a canyon east of Moreno Valley on June 16 in Beaumont, Calif. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) It’s a scene that’s become routine with ...
It’s a scene that’s become routine with big blazes in the West. A plane dips low over a smoldering ridgetop and unleashes a ribbon of fire retardant, coating the hillside a bright pink. Onlookers ...
Onlookers cheer the display of firefighting prowess. The U.S. Forest Service and other agencies each year drop tens of millions of gallons of fire retardant, mostly an ammonium phosphate-based slurry ...