In addition to better weather, the fight has been aided by a stream of firefighting help from far and wide and the ability to use water-dropping aircraft.

The family of the former chairman of Leicester City, who died with four others in a helicopter crash, has launched a £2.15 billion legal claim against the aircraft's manufacturer.

“We get the aircraft up and we get them flying, and then it’s just too dangerous for the pilots and they have to come back down,” he said.

A small drone collided with a firefighting aircraft — a Super Scooper, a massive fixed-wing plane that can drop large amounts of water — that was flying over the Palisades fire on Thursday.

Third, despite Trumpov’s claptrap, plenty of fresh delta water is being pumped south to fill fire hydrants and the tanks of firefighting aircraft.