Hollywood Work Was Already Drying Up. Then the Fires Hit.

Hollywood Work Was Already Drying Up. Then the Fires Hit.

“Is this our get-out-of-jail-free card?,” the cinematographer Gabriel Patay, 40, said he wondered after he and his wife, a documentary producer, lost the home they spent nine years restoring. “We are tied to this property, we are stuck in L.A.,” he has thought. “Should we leave?” Patay is cleareyed that his insurance will not cover … Read more

Trump Calls Officials Handling Los Angeles Wildfires ‘Incompetent’

Trump Calls Officials Handling Los Angeles Wildfires ‘Incompetent’

President-elect Donald J. Trump offered fresh criticism early Sunday of the officials in charge of fighting the Los Angeles wildfires, calling them “incompetent” and asking why the blazes were not yet extinguished. “The fires are still raging in L.A.,” Mr. Trump wrote on his Truth Social site. “The incompetent pols have no idea how to … Read more