The president’s initial guest list doesn’t include Gov. Gavin Newsom or state forest officials on his trip to the Los Angeles fires — but he’s bringing the head of the Forest Service, a Biden appointee with California experience.

Set aside for a moment the fact that the link between any mismanaged state forests and the Los Angeles fires is tenuous; the U.S. Forest Service, not California, owns the forest land around the Eaton Fire in Altadena, and the Pacific Palisades is surrounded by chaparral, not overgrown forest.

PORTLAND (WGME) – A Maine Forest Ranger battling California’s wildfires is sharing an update on the region's progress. Nearly two weeks ago, Governor Janet Mills sent eight forest rangers to California to help first responders on the ground. Right now, the rangers are working to put out a huge fire just north of Santa Clarita.

The House of Representatives has passed the Fix Our Forests Act, legislation aimed at sharpening forest management strategies to curb wildfires.

The National Weather Service issued a flood watch for certain areas from Jan 26 to 27. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Conditions have been ripe for wildfires thanks to a combination of an exceptionally dry period - downtown LA has only received 0.16 inches (0.4cm) of rain since October - and powerful offshore gusts known as the Santa Ana winds. A political row about the city's preparedness has erupted after it emerged some fire crews' hoses ran dry.

Los Angeles, United States: Above the roaring fires devastating parts of ... is fire retardant - much of it a product called Phos-Chek that has been used by the US Forest Service since the 1960s. "You can see it so easily ... it's amazing stuff," says ...

Flames were devouring hillsides near Castaic Lake, covering more than 3,200ha in just a few hours. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A team of New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers are joining the efforts to battle the wildfires in Los Angeles, Governor Kathy Hochul announced.

Federal investigators are asking for the public’s help in locating two men who were seen on surveillance cameras breaking into a U.S. Forest Service vehicle and stealing critical

But as Trump touches down in Los Angeles on Friday to view the latest damage, forest management remains a political vulnerability for Newsom that Republicans have capitalized on since the wildfires started — and that Democrats have struggled to defend against.

A new report suggests that climate change-induced factors, like reduced rainfall, primed conditions for the Palisades and Eaton fires.