The National Weather Service has provided a detailed timeline of when rain is expected to hit Los Angeles and Southern California this weekend.

Crews spent much of the past week removing vegetation, shoring up slopes and reinforcing roads in devastated areas of the Palisades and Eaton fires, which reduced entire neighborhoods to rubble and ash after breaking out during powerful winds Jan.

Officials ordered evacuations in the area surrounding the Hughes Fire on Wednesday morning, located near Castaic Lake in Los Angeles County.

The fires are still not fully contained and have killed 28 people and damaged or destroyed nearly 16,000 structures.

Several NWSL players are natives to Southern California natives, and returned to the area for the league's first media day

President Trump is expected to visit the Los Angeles area Friday following the devastating wildfires that caused extensive damage.

Red-flag warnings for dangerous fire weather are in place until Friday.

In the era when American cities regularly caught fire, the widespread destruction seeded what looks, in retrospect, like possibility.

Ahead of his trip, the president threatened to withhold aid from California, which he said had mismanaged its water during firefighting efforts.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — After weeks of windy and dry weather, rain has fallen in parched Southern California and is expected to aid firefighters who are mopping up multiple wildfires. But potentially heavy downpours on charred hillsides could bring new troubles such as toxic ash runoff.

Rain began falling in parched Southern California on Saturday in a boon for firefighters who were mopping up multiple wildfires. But heavy downpours on charred hillsides could bring the threat of new troubles like toxic ash runoff.