Tuesday's report, too rapid for peer-review yet, found global warming boosted the likelihood of high fire weather conditions in this month's fires by 35% and its intensity by 6%.

As Southern California gets some much-needed rain, a new analysis suggests the conditions that led to January's wildfires were 35 per cent more likely because of human-fuelled climate change. And the more likely those fires become,

After President Donald Trump said he used the military to restore Southern California's water supply, Gov. Gavin Newsom denied the claims, saying that federal water pumps were turned back on without military intervention.