Insurance company uses fire retardant gel to protect homes from wildfires. Aug. 30, 2007 — -- Throughout the summer wildfires have threatened homes in the western United States, and now some of ...

There’s a new tool to prevent wildfires and for the first time, it’s being used in San Luis Obispo County. Several miles of roadsides around Heritage Ranch near Lake Nacimiento are now coated with a ...

VICTORVILLE • As local school teachers decorated their classroom for the new school year, many were armed with a new tool: a spray can of fire retardant. To boost fire safety, Victor Elementary School ...

The Union Colony Fire Department knocked the fire down and by 6 a.m. GREELEY, Colo -- A two-alarm fire broke out at a Greeley recycling plant at daybreak Tuesday, but it was quickly brought under ...

Scott Garrett got the evacuation order at 6 a.m. on Oct. 22. His Lake Arrowhead home lay in the path of the Grass Valley fire, and flames would arrive within hours. Garrett rushed to his garage, where ...

The firefighter pulled the black hose down a hill. “Good?” she called out. “All the way down,” a voice responded. Brea Kirklen kept walking. Below her were the remnants of a homeless encampment in a ...

Jim Moseley stands poolside, aviator sunglasses perched on his head, holding a blowtorch. He’s got a stick that’s been treated at one end with SPF 3000, the fire-prevention spray he invented. We’re on ...

CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - When a fire breaks out, every second counts. "Those extra couple of seconds could be the life saving time period between someone dying in that fire and someone's life being ...