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.

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.

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 ...

Hundreds of thousands of gallons of hot-pink fire suppressant have been dumped ahead of the flames in a desperate effort to stop them before they destroy more neighborhoods.

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

A team of Maine forest rangers and volunteer firefighters are headed to California to help fight the devastating wildfires in the Los Angeles area.

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.

New York forest rangers are in California to help fight wildfires. Gov. Kathy Hochul said a team of 10 Department of Environmental Conservation forest rangers traveled to California to support ongoing efforts to contain wildfires raging in Los Angeles.

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.

There's an old saying that you fight fire with fire. Nah, not true. The reality is that you fight fire with firefighters. Just look across our country, 3,000 miles away, and you will see what I mean.