Overview

• The National Weather Service issued a Red Flag warning for the mountains and foothills of Los Angeles and Ventura counties from 9 a.m. Wednesday through Saturday night due to extreme fire-weather conditions.
• Forecasts call for widespread triple-digit highs with downtown Los Angeles and inland coastal areas near 95 to 105 degrees, L.A. valleys up to about 110, Inland Empire near 106, San Diego County valleys near 102, and deserts such as Death Valley around 120.
• California’s Office of Emergency Services deployed 10 engines, two water tenders, two bulldozers, a helicopter, two hand crews, three dispatchers and an incident management team to Los Angeles County to speed wildfire response.
• Los Angeles is opening additional cooling centers and the fire department is prepositioning resources, including a new 26-member wildfire-focused crew.
• Forecasters flag a 20% chance of monsoonal thunderstorms Friday into the weekend in the L.A. and San Bernardino county mountains with potential lightning ignitions and localized flooding, and warn some alerts could be extended.