The number of California homes and businesses without electricity ballooned to more than 400,000 on Wednesday, as multiple wildfires raged uncontrollably around Los Angeles. Fires that started on Tuesday have killed at least five people,

President Biden on Thursday said that intentional power outages in the Los Angeles area that were administered in order to prevent more fires from starting were partially to blame for water

The devastating fires ripping through Los Angeles are fueled by unusual weather conditions that the National Weather Service called “about as bad as it gets in terms of fire weather.” And driving that worst-case scenario is a rapidly warming planet,