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Los Angeles, United States, Jan 15, 2025 (AFP) - What is the pink stuff coating fire-ravaged Los Angeles?

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2025-01-15
Above the roaring fires devastating parts of Los Angeles is an incongruous sight: air tankers dropping gallons of bright red and Barbie-pink slurry over forest, homes, cars, and anything else that might lie in the blazes' path. The substance, vivid against the grey smoke and charred landscape, is fire retardant -- much of it a product called Phos-Chek that has been used by the US Forest Service since the 1960s. "You can see it so easily ... it's......
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