Firefighters are trying to extinguish a brush fire along the hillsides near Burbank. The fire started at roughly 3:40 p.m. near the 1000 block of Bethany Road. The Burbank Fire Department said it was a two-alarm fire.

In a post on Truth Social, the U.S. President accused California Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass of failing to control the city’s unrest and of stalling the reconstruction of 25,

President Trump defended sending federal troops to Los Angeles amid anti-ICE protests, claiming the city would be “burning to the ground” without intervention. He blasted Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass for mishandling both protests and wildfire recovery.