Biden has also recently spoken with California Governor Gavin Newsom on the phone to receive the latest update on the wildfires. This was one of the most devastating nights in the history of the City of Los Angeles. Residents awoke to the sound of ferocious winds buffeting all around them and a horizon cloaked in thick black smoke.

Meanwhile, a new brush fire ignited in the Woodland Hills neighborhood in northern Los Angeles, immediately prompting mandatory evacuation orders.

Firefighters are battling to control a series of major fires in the Los Angeles area that have killed five people, ravaged communities from the Pacific Coast to Pasadena and sent thousands of people f