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A legal dispute could drastically curb the government's use of aerial fire retardant to combat wildfires.

A federal lawsuit claims fire retardant dumped from airplanes doesn’t really stop wildfires but does damage creeks and other aquatic habitats.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. officials are testing a new wildfire retardant after two...

/PRNewswire/ -- The California Fire Safe Council (CFSC), a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) which serves as Californias leader in community resiliency and wildfire risk...

Sometimes they come over to ask, “What’s wrong?” “Pretty reasonable mistake to make,” said Hatten, the man behind the wheel of Rescue Unit #70, which at first glance looks like an ambulance. “I haven’t done much to change the exterior,” Hatten said of the vehicle. “I’ll get my logo on there, eventually.” He has put solar panels on top, but those aren’t too noticeable, and “Rawlins County” is still visible in outline on the ba...

Can out trick-or-treating. this morning had problems. had to stop the chopper drops of water because some people were flying drones in the area. they are right now about 500 firefighters on the ground trying to protect the infrastructure and the high voltage power lines farms. rural-ish area north of los angeles. look up there, push in there, jared. this fire is still burning and it actually jumped this little road just not that long ago and we saw a couple of drops of phos-chek. that retardened...

Attacks from this fire, the easy fire named after easy street where it started and surprise attacks and long skirmishes and defenses like this one. you can see the cal fire crews in yellow up there and the guys in orange are fire fighting inmates who are selected and paid two to three bucks a day to do this, as well, but whats interesting about these hurricane-force winds and sustained 40 mile-an-hour winds, wolf, and gusts up to 60 miles an hour and there no way to stop these embers, so this, t...

As high winds and brush fuel those flames. mekahlo medina is in that area to show us what it looks like on the ground. >> were here on easy street in simi valley, the orange of the fire. its called the easy fire, but its certainly been a heck of a job with all of these high winds that are blowing here. take a look behind me. you can see firefighters have done a pretty good job at putting out much of these flames over the course of the last couple of hours. theyve not used only helicopters to dro...

Breaking news. >> breaking news today. hundreds of homes in the line of fire under evacuation orders in kern county. right now more than 1,100 acres have burned. >> this is eyewitness news at 6:00. tonight, more than 150 firefighters are locked in this dangerous firefight near lebec. as many as 200 homes are evacuated in the area near frazier park in lebec, and more evacuations could be ahead. our breaking news team coverage begins live over the fire. j.t.? >> reporter: yeah, what youre looking ...

Breaking news. >> breaking news today. hundreds of homes in the line of fire under evacuation orders in kern county. right now more than 1,100 acres have burned. >> this is eyewitness news at 6:00. tonight, more than 150 firefighters are locked in this dangerous firefight near lebec. as many as 200 homes are evacuated in the area near frazier park in lebec, and more evacuations could be ahead. our breaking news team coverage begins live over the fire. j.t.? >> reporter: yeah, what youre looking ...