Advisers to California Gov. Gavin Newsom spent the week monitoring new White House advance staffers’ social media accounts, hoping for clues for where President Donald Trump might be headed when he lands in Los Angeles on Friday afternoon to talk about the wildfire damage.

Climate disasters such as the recent Los Angeles–area fires are making it harder to prepare for more climate disasters

In the era when American cities regularly caught fire, the widespread destruction seeded what looks, in retrospect, like possibility.