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• s  difficult to burn

• And during the war, Hizballah gunners had tossed fire-retardant blankets over the launchers immediately after unleashing their rockets to hide the lingering heat signature from .
• Torrential rain had reacted with a fire-retardant chemical in the carpet, making it froth up like bubble bath.
• Oakley just launched a consumer version of its lightweight assault boot, which special-forces units in Afghanistan prized for its fire-retardant laces and squeak-reducing soles.

• fire-resistant
• fire-resisting
• fire-resistive

News & Articles

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• Asiana Airlines Passenger Ye Meng Yuan Killed by First Responder, After Plane Crash
  Travel Weird News Asiana Airlines Crash Video footage recorded by a helmet-cam worn by Fire Chief Mark Johnson, who responded to the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash in San Francisco on July 6, reveals how passenger Ye Meng Yuan was killed by an emergency vehicle. Yuan, 16, was lying injured on the runway, but was covered by fire-retardant foam that was sprayed by first responders. According to ...
  Aug. 6, 2013 - Opposing Views
• Video sheds light on Flight 214 passenger's death
  The San Francisco Fire Department supervisors who took charge of the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash scene were not alerted by firefighters that a 16-year-old passenger had been found near the plane, leaving them powerless to prevent the girl from being run over by a rig after she was covered by fire-retardant foam, footage of the incident shows. The footage was recorded by a camera mounted on ...
  Aug. 5, 2013 - San Francisco Chronicle

Quotes

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• Ratan Tata in AFP
  Tata Motors said the two cars that its engineers had examined "had some minor smoking -- not fire -- and a localised melting of some of the fire-retardant plastic parts."