• California is burning.

At least 23 people have died and thousands of homes have been destroyed in the most destructive fire in the state’s modern history, engulfing large swaths in the north.

In Southern California, two more died in fires near Los Angeles that forced evacuations in Malibu and Thousand Oaks, a city that was still reeling from a mass shooting last week.

Once a seasonal worry, fires have recently become a near-constant terror in California.

President Trump blamed the infernos on “gross mismanagement of the forests,” drawing outrage from local leaders.