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 ...

~ The superabsorbent polymer can hold many times its weight in water and clings well to vertical surfaces and glass. HOT SPRINGS, S.D. -- It was the most intense fire ever recorded in the Black Hills ...

A fire-retardant gel credited with helping save roughly 500 homes and businesses in San Bernardino and San Diego counties eventually will be carried aboard every state fire engine, officials say. A ...

Altek will seek to commercialize the GBFR in the US under the trademarked name GraphGel™. The new material combines gel properties that provides a strong thermal barrier against fires and expandable ...

HOT SPRINGS - The big Alabaugh Fire south of Hot Springs has become a proving ground for Structure Protection Specialists, a Rapid City firm that sprays a protective gel on homes threatened by ...

Imagine this: Under an orange ash-filled sky, intensely hot wildfire flames engulf a freshly evacuated wooden farmhouse. The inferno swallows trees, bushes and wildlife, spreading quickly across the ...

Bartlett, a lieutenant with the Palm Beach County (Fla.) Fire Department, said the idea for the gel came to him during a less-than-glamorous firefighting assignment. Aug. 31, 2003 Bartlett, a ...

With more moderate winds over Southern California, a fleet of helicopters and air tankers has been able to drop in the last two days hundreds of thousands of gallons of water and fire retardant from ...

GUELPH, ONTARIO / ACCESS Newswire / November 5, 2025 / Zentek Ltd. (ZTEK) ("Zentek" or the "Company")(TSX-V:ZEN), an intellectual property technology development and commercialization company, ...

GUELPH, ONTARIO / ACCESS Newswire / November 5, 2025 / Zentek Ltd. ("Zentek" or the "Company") (Nasdaq:ZTEK)(TSX-V:ZEN), an intellectual property technology development and commercialization company, ...