Planes are dropping load after load of fire-retardant chemicals.

It can also be pressure-impregnated with fire-retardant chemicals that improve its performance in a fire.

But hundreds of volunteer firefighters and three tanker airplanes dropping fire-retardant chemicals contained the brush fire Saturday.

Reddish streaks in the dirt mark where fire-retardant chemicals have been dropped from low-flying aircraft.

The gliders from Tramontana had dispersed, each to unload bags of fire-retardant chemicals in a different front line of the fire.

The wickerwood hull, though treated with a fire-retardant chemical, would not hold up against such heat.

In the meantime, consider having at-risk furniture professionally treated with fire-retardant chemicals (curtains and drapes can be treated too).

But Congress stepped in to block any action and ordered studies of cancer risks from fire-retardant chemicals.

Thanking God for the fire-retardant chemicals that were stinking up the cabin, she made the flame Bunsen-burner big.

All the gowns are sprayed with a fire-retardant chemical.