Nathan Thom, assistant wildlife manager with the Brainerd office of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources rides in the passenger seat while Evan Duchow, wildlife technician with the Aitkin ...

She said Phos-chek, a flame retardant, was not observed in the debris basins. Vazquez also said that crews took measures, including installing a type of berm, to prevent burned home debris from ...

What's in Phos-Chek, the bright red or pink fire suppressant dropped on fires? Marybel Gonzalez reports.

“They’re the ones who have really blown open this issue that retardant, the Phos-Chek retardant, contains astonishingly high levels of heavy metals like cadmium,” Stahl said. “We’ve susp ...

The Zachau Canyon sediment placement site in Tujunga. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times) ...

“They’re the ones who have really blown open this issue that retardant, the Phos-Chek retardant, contains astonishingly high levels of heavy metals like cadmium,” Stahl said. “We’ve suspected that for ...

In the case of the Los Angeles fires, Santoro said that most scientists are looking to the phosphorus-rich chemical fire retardant, Phos-Chek, which was used to extinguish the flames and was ...