Harris will be in Los Angeles to meet with those impacted by the devastating wildfires, her office confirmed to ABC News.
After President Donald Trump’s 2025 inauguration, former Vice President Kamala Harris traveled back to California on a flight operated by an all-female U.S. Air Force crew.
After leaving the vice presidency, Kamala Harris returned to her home state of California. She visited wildfire first responders and helped with food distribution at World Central Kitchen, demonstrating her dedication to community and crisis response.
A second day of ferocious winds were forecast for Tuesday in Southern California where firefighters remained on alert and extreme fire weather raised the risk of new wildfires two weeks after two major blazes still burning in the Los Angeles area sparked.
Over 88,000 Californians remain under evacuation orders due to multiple fires, which have burned 40,000 acres.
Once considered a rising star of the Democratic Party, after an unsuccessful 2020 primary and then 2024 presidential campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris is being encouraged to take her time as she considers her next steps after the White House.
The arrest was due to a curfew violation, as the area was under an evacuation order due to the deadly Palisades wildfire.
The Brentwood house she shares with Doug Emhoff is in an evacuation zone, but the vice president has been in Washington.
Fires ignited in Pacific Palisades, Sylmar, Altadena and Hollywood Hills, forcing thousands to evacuate amid a life-threatening and destructive windstorm slamming Southern California.
LAPD responded a potential burglary and apprehended two individuals at VP Kamala Harris' Brentwood home during curfew hours amid the California fires.
The neighborhood is in the mandatory evacuation zone as the deadly fire pushes east toward the populated Los Angeles neighborhoods.
Trump cited the disasters during his inauguration speech Monday as examples of an insufficient federal response to communities in need.