Crews fighting devastating wildfires in California have been dousing homes and hillsides with bright pink fire ... blanketing cars, trees and driveways across the area. The flame retardant is ...

As crews battle fires in Los Angeles, the hot pink fire retardant they’ve dropped to stall the flames’ advance ... Covering buildings, cars, streets, and plants, its bright color isn’t ...

To fight the fires, air tankers dropped gallons of bright red and pink slurry over forests, homes, cars and anything else in the blazes’ path. The brightly-coloured substance is a fire retardant ...