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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.

Los Angeles is counting on a significant Canadian presence in its firefighting forces this week as multiple blazes ravage the city, forcing tens of thousands out of their homes. The government of Quebec, in particular, confirmed on Wednesday that its aircraft are currently operating to try to put out the fires in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass committed another blunder as she continues to drop the ball on the wildfire response in her city, telling desperate residents to visit “URL” for further assistance.

The two biggest fires ravaging southwest California are still zero percent contained, according to the latest data from CalFire.

Raging wildfires that broke out in various regions of Los Angeles, CA, Tuesday and Wednesday are spreading due to extreme winds, causing historic destruction of homes and displacing tens of thousands of people.

President-elect Donald Trump has called on Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom to resign while the city of Los Angeles burns, saying it is “his fault.”

The streets at the foot of the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles were gridlocked Wednesday night as hundreds of people fled from the newly erupted Sunset fire in Runyon Canyon near the famous Hollywood sign.

A brush fire erupted in the Hollywood Hills area of California, to the west of the iconic Hollywood sign, amid several ongoing wildfires that first erupted in the Pacific Palisades area on Tuesday.

The Eaton fire in Los Angeles County’s Altadena and Pasadena has grown to over 10,000 acres with at least five people dead, hundreds of homes lost, and over 100,000 people under an ordered evacuation.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) nearly fell into total silence when questioned by a reporter about the incompetent response to the wildfires,

Several Planet Fitness locations in the Los Angeles area are open to those who have been affected by the California wildfires that first broke out in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood.

More than 4 million California electricity customers were impacted by power outages on Wednesday as the multiple wildfires rage on at zero percent containment.

The air quality in southern California is being seriously impacted by the raging wildfires in Los Angeles, with city officials instructing residents to keep windows shut and to wear masks outside.

President-elect Donald Trump believes the wildfires that have wreaked havoc on Los Angeles County could be the most costly – in terms of money – in the history of the United States.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is blaming the raging California wildfires on climate change.

Biden received a briefing from first responders and officials at Santa Monica Fire Station #5 in California about the Santa Ana wind-fueled wildfires ravaging Los Angeles.

The city is currently battling five wildfires, including three major fires that have devoured thousands of acres, destroyed more than 1,000 structures, and left two people dead, according to officials.

President-elect Donald Trump said that Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is to blame for the horrific wildfires incinerating Los Angeles.

An apocalyptic video shows two men and a dog in a home surrounded by roaring flames as wildfires spread throughout the LA area, fueled by extreme winds.

A young firefighter sustained what has been described as a “serious” head injury while battling the Palisades fire, according to reports.

Raging wildfires that broke out in various regions of Los Angeles, CA, Tuesday and Wednesday are spreading across the region due to extreme winds, causing historic destruction of homes and displacing thousands of people.

A brushfire erupted in Eaton Canyon near Altadena just north of Pasadena amid the Los Angeles wildfires on Tuesday, which have been exacerbated by the massive windstorm hitting the area.

Fire broke out in West Hollywood, California, on Tuesday just off Los Angeles’s famous Sunset Boulevard amid the ongoing windstorm that exacerbated a wildfire in the Pacific Palisades.

Actor Steve Guttenberg, best known for his starring turns in the “Police Academy” series along with other 1980s favorites like “Short Circuit” and “Cocoon,” was seen helping firefighters clear the roads of abandoned cars during the horrific Pacific Palisades wildfire in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

Homes are burning Tuesday in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Pacific Palisades as a wildfire is carried across the hillside community by strong winds. One home has been completely engulfed in flames.

Los Angeles area residents evacuating due to the wildfire that broke out in the mountains above the Pacific Palisades were seen ditching their cars on the highway.

Actor James Woods is among the people evacuating from the Los Angeles area due to a wildfire in the mountains above the Pacific Palisades.

Two brush fires broke out in Los Angeles on Tuesday as Southern California faces “life-threatening” wind conditions that are fanning the flames, according to city officials.

The city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, the holiest city in the Muslim religion, experienced heavy flooding on Monday after torrential downpours. 

A massive multi-hundred-acre fire has engulfed the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles, forcing evacuations of the area.

Vast areas of Southern California have been warned by weather officials to brace for a “life-threatening and destructive” windstorm driven by strong Santa Ana winds across Tuesday.

Hundreds of thousands of people across the midwestern and eastern states were without power, and even more were stuck at home instead of going to work and school, on Monday morning as a historic winter storm dumped — and continues to dump — several inches of snow on them.

Authorities lifted a ground stop at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport that was issued on Monday amid winter weather.

Record-breaking waves of freezing winds, ice, and snow are coming to swaths of the central, eastern, and southern states next week, with meteorologists warning that “more than 250 million” will be impacted.

At least four people were killed when severe weather ripped through areas in the southern portion of the United States over the weekend.

Weather conditions are forecast to improve this week in Southern California and aid firefighters in their battle against a wildfire that’s forced up to 20,000 people from their homes.