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Over 900 prison inmates are among the more than 7,500 emergency personnel fighting the raging wildfires that are devastating portions of Los Angeles, California, state corrections officials said.

Insurance industry leaders are shooting back at Vice President Kamala Harris’s claim that insurers have abandoned “a lot of the families who have been affected and will be affected” by the Los Angeles wildfires, arguing that it was a “false, wrong and dangerous” statement.

Los Angeles Department of Water and Power CEO Janisse Quiñones had knowledge that the Santa Ynez Reservoir was offline, and that fire hydrants were not working, according to a recent report.

There was no way of understanding how the song “Fighter” would apply personally, singer-songwriter and Breitbart News COO Jon Kahn said during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday, walking through the personal loss he is navigating after losing his home in the California wildfires.

Officials are using ocean water to battle the fires sweeping across the Los Angeles area, but the move could bring consequences.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) reportedly cut $100 million from the state’s fire prevention budget in 2024.

Los Angeles residents are demanding that Mayor Karen Bass (D) be immediately recalled as fires devastate their communities.

Actor Milo Ventimiglia and his wife, model Jarah Mariano — who is pregnant with their first child — lost their Malibu home in the catastrophic wildfires that have been ravaging the Democrat-controlled city of Los Angeles.

On Friday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman vowed punishment to the fullest extent of the law for looters in the wake of the California fires but stated that the looting statute that

Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) chief Kristin Crowley said Friday on CNN’s “The Lead” that massive budget cuts “absolutely negatively impacted ” the department’s ability to fight the disastrous wildfires in Southern California.

Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley confirmed that the city of Los Angeles had failed her and her department.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) called for an “independent investigation” into why the Santa Ynez Reservoir was offline when the wildfires in the Los Angeles area began.

A man and a stray dog recently shared a tender moment in the aftermath of the fires that have ravaged the Los Angeles area.

A Pacific Palisades reservoir was closed when wildfires swept the area and devastated the community, officials told the Los Angeles Times.

Actress and filmmaker Justine Bateman heaped scorn on the political class in Los Angeles and the state of California over the devastating wildfire disaster that continues to sweep over Southern California, and demanded that they “resign in shame” for their fatal failures.

Los Angeles Catholic Archbishop José Gomez called for prayers Thursday for victims of California’s catastrophic wildfires, while asserting that “we don’t know why these disasters happen.”

Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow thinks the Los Angeles wildfires might be the event that triggers Californians to finally reject the Democrats’ one-party rule of the Golden State.

Democrat Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) is blaming the California fires on corporations ignoring the “reality of climate change.”

China’s TikTok is facing backlash for its policy towards employees in the Los Angeles area who are being impacted by the devastating wildfires ravaging the region.

On Friday, MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough blamed the “complete failure of government to protect” the homes of Los Angeles residents from wildfires this week.

Economist and author Julia Pollak said Friday on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings With Maria” that the devastating California wildfires could become the “costliest disaster” in U.S. history.

The economic toll of the L.A. fires continues to mount.

Los Angeles has called in elements of the California National Guard as out-of-control wildfires continue to wreak havoc, its troops tasked with preventing looting and civil unrest as well as helping emergency responders execute their work.

A Canadian “Super Scooper” aircraft fighting the Palisades fire in Los Angeles had to be grounded Thursday after it hit a civilian drone in the smoke-filled skies above the blaze, local fire department officials said.

Hollywood star Barbra Streisand declared on Thursday that the strong winds carrying wildfires across Los Angeles are “due to climate change” and demanded that “this coming government better address” it.

Wildfires laying waste to vast areas of Los Angeles have now claimed 10 lives and devoured nearly 10,000 structures, with five fires still burning Friday as dry desert winds fanning the flames regathered strength. One estimate of the damage and economic loss already caused by the catastrophic fires stands at $135-$150 billion.

Breitbart News visited the aftermath of the Eaton Fire in Altadena just to the north of Pasadena on Thursday; neighborhoods reduced to ash.

A family in Altadena went viral this week with video of them singing Christian hymns over the rubble of their home that burned in the Eaton fire just north of Pasadena near Los Angeles.

Police reportedly have been investigating the Kenneth fire in Woodland Hills near the southside of the San Fernando Valley as possible arson and have detained a suspect, according to a local Fox News affiliate.

The Kenneth Fire in the area near Woodland Hills on the southwest side of the San Fernando Valley has reportedly grown since erupting.

On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) responded to criticism of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass for being out of the city and in Ghana during the fires in Los Angeles by saying that “I’m sure

Former NASCAR driver Danica Patrick has voiced skepticism at reports that there simply is not enough water to fight the Los Angeles, California, wildfires, pointing out that the way the state is “managed” is to blame.

The Los Angeles County Fire Department erroneously sent an evacuation warning text message alert to all of Los Angeles County on Thursday afternoon, inflicting more panic and confusion on an already traumatized public coping with the most damaging fires in Los Angeles history.

Aerial footage captured by local news drones shows the devastating damage done by the raging Pacific Palisades fire in the ritzy Los Angeles neighborhood, revealing a post-apocalyptic landscape of destroyed homes.

During an interview with CBS News aired on Thursday’s “CBS Evening News,” LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley stated that the cuts to the department’s budget resulted in the department taking from “nonessential duties and responsibilities” but due to the cuts, “we were

As the wildfires rage, a left-wing magazine is hailing Kristin Crowley, Los Angeles’s first LGBTQ+ fire chief, as proof that “lesbians get it done,” sparking backlash over priorities during the city’s historic disaster.