Commentary: Wildfire retardant is often ineffective. Here’s what communities should do instead.
Retardant — like many other top-down or last-ditch government efforts — is often wildly ineffective.
(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Planes drop fire retardants on a fire along State Route 143, the primary road to the southern Utah ski town of Brian Head, on Sunday, June 18, 2017.