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Authorities battling a series of large wildfires in the Los Angeles area have employed a bright red fire retardant to tamp the flames, leading to dramatic images of the material blanketing scores of ...

A four-alarm fire Feb. 17 destroyed the century-old barn Red Fire had been using as a farm store, taking with it necessary tools and equipment. A GoFundMe started collecting donations after a ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – The Bachelor Complex, including the Little Lava Fire, held at 50% containment this weekend, with no change in acreage reported, while the Red Fire near Crescent Lake has grown to ...

Red Fire Farm will host a seasonal harvest celebration on Saturday featuring an array of fall dishes as part of continuing fundraising efforts for a barn, pictured here earlier this fall, to replace a ...

It’s a sight now synonymous with California’s fire season: A tanker aircraft flies over vegetation and drops a stream of red. But what exactly is that stuff? It’s fire retardant, used in preemptive ...

GRANBY, Mass. (WWLP) – After a fire destroyed the barn and farm store at Red Fire Farm in Granby just over three weeks ago, efforts are being made to help the rebuilding process. Red Fire Farm in ...

Three species of fire ants have been found in North Carolina: red imported fire ants, black fire ants, and hybrid fire ants. Red imported fire ants are the most common fire ant species in North ...

Like flees and rats that carried the bubonic plague to Europe from Asia in the fourteenth century, two of the four fire ant species arrived in the American south from southern Latin America. They did ...

Since the red imported fire ant is an invasive species, they have displaced other fire ant species native to Texas such as “Solenopsis geminata” or tropical fire ants. Oktavianus Mulyadi Pexels As the ...