The timing also would mean higher costs for rebuilding efforts in L.A. County communities destroyed by wildfires.

Forecasts say the chances of flash flooding are not high, but even so, city crews are reinforcing roads and telling residents to take warnings seriously.

The Palisades and Eaton wildfires also continue burning in the Los Angeles area, leaving parts of Southern California with devastating fire damage.

Three active fires in Los Angeles neared full containment Sunday, as the region receives much-needed rain that has produced flood and mudslide warnings lasting through Monday. Saturday, 4:00 p.m. PST Cal Fire data marked the Palisades Fire at 87% containment, the Eaton Fire at 95% containment and the Hughes Fire at 92% containment.

Crises — either real or merely perceived — can make or break political careers as news media and the voting public judge how those who hold or aspire to office respond.

The Los Angeles County government's post announcing the return on X ... Gavin Newsom for the fires and criticized California for its response to the blazes in his inauguration address, earlier announced he would visit Los Angeles Friday.

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Southern California is bracing for an "unprecedented" third Particularly Dangerous Situation warning in a month, as extreme Santa Ana winds increase fire danger.

After 16 days in Southern California, the Redding Fire Department has returned to the Northstate. The team was deployed to the Eaton Fire in Pasadena.

As parts of fire-ravaged Southern California begin to recover, Los Angeles County is sending out mental health workers to help fire victims heal from trauma.

The FBI would eventually call John Orr the most prolific serial arsonist of the 20th century, and when he went on trial in 1998, prosecutors presented his manuscript as a thinly veiled memoir of his crimes.