{"id":29387,"date":"2025-01-13T11:44:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T06:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29387"},"modified":"2025-04-09T02:42:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T21:12:26","slug":"pink-fire-retardant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/pink-fire-retardant\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Pink Fire Retardant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Pink Fire Retardant:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Fire retardant is a mix of chemicals used to extinguish or <strong>slow down the spread of fires.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>There are different types of fire retardant but to tackle wildfires in the US, authorities most commonly use Phos-Chek \u2014 a brand of fire retardant \u2014 which mostly contains an ammonium phosphate-based slurry.<\/li>\n<li>Typically, it is made of salts such as <strong>ammonium polyphosphate<\/strong>, which does not evaporate easily like water and stays for longer.<\/li>\n<li>Colour is usually added to the fire retardant to ensure that firefighters can see it against the landscape.<\/li>\n<li>This helps them create fire lines around the fire retardant, potentially saving lives and property.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What are the concerns?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Environmental experts have said that spraying fire retardant using planes is ineffective, expensive and a growing source of pollution for rivers and streams.<\/li>\n<li>Phos-Chek \u201cis laden with toxic metals, and estimated retardant use has released 850,000 pounds of these chemicals into the environment since 2009.<\/li>\n<li>These toxic metals include chromium and cadmium which can cause cancer, and kidney and liver diseases in humans and these toxic metals can kill aquatic life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1: What is Fire Retardant gel?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>It protects a person&#8217;s hand from burning fuel. Fire-retardant gels are short-term fire suppressants typically applied with ground equipment. They are also used in the movie industry to protect stunt persons from flames when filming action movie scenes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-sci-tech\/pink-fire-retardant-california-wildfires-9773560\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pink Fire Retardant is a mix of chemicals used to extinguish or slow down the spread of fires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}