LOS ANGELES - As emergency personnel gain increasing control of the Palisades and Eaton blazes, a new firestorm has erupted. This one is micro-focused: It swirls around, and threatens to engulf, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass.

As local voters say they have lost confidence in the mayor, a presidential visit gave her a platform to plead her case. Then the president intervened.

Communities in wildfire burn scars are threatened with possible mudslides as the chance of rain enters the forecast for Southern California this weekend.

A reader says there is a big difference between how Los Angles Mayor Karen Bass and U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz responded to disasters.

“Despite being smack in the middle of the rainy season, brush conditions over Southern California are currently as dry as they ever get in the summer (the dry season),” AccuWeather California Expert Ken Clark said. “So when you throw dry air and Santa Ana winds into the mix, you have prime ingredients for wildfires.”

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.

The rain that is expected to hit the scorched Los Angeles landscape this weekend may bring relief to the fire fights, but it could also bring flash floods and mudslides. Although forecasts show that the risk is relatively low, local officials are taking the warnings seriously.

Firefighters continue to battle fires across Southern California as the area prepares for a presidential visit Friday and rain in the weekend forecast.

Rain and cooler temperatures will bring relief to Southern California this weekend, after a prolonged stretch of dry, breezy weather that allowed wildfires to thrive.

LOS ANGELES - As emergency personnel gain increasing control of the Palisades and Eaton blazes, a new firestorm has erupted. This one is micro-focused: It swirls around, and threatens to engulf, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass.

The incoming rain this weekend brings mudslide threat to areas previously affected by the wildfires, as crews race to contain several new brush fires.

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