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.

MALIBU - As he looks at the ruins of his home razed when deadly fires tore through the Los Angeles area, Mr Sebastian Harrison knows it will never be the same again, because he was not insured. “I knew it was risky, but I had no choice,” he told AFP.

President Trump is expected to visit Los Angeles on Friday to survey the devastation from the firestorms that swept through the county.