For Los Angeles residents, this week’s fires are affecting the people we identify with most intimately: family, friends and community members.

Economists have warned this could mean spending cuts affecting public services or tax rises that could hit people's pay or businesses' ability to grow.

The deputy prime minister said the UK government had taken on a "dire inheritance" and that policies affecting Scotland - such as Great British Energy and reformed workers' rights - would "take time to filter through".

Most of the mandatory evacuation area was lifted except for a few city blocks, affecting areas north of Franklin Avenue, west of Camino Palmero Street and east of Sierra Bonita Avenue.

On Wednesday evening, poor weather was affecting Northern and Great Western Railway.