Mayor Karen Bass and chief recovery officer Steve Soboroff said the city would soon hire an outside firm to represent the city's interests in wildfire relief efforts.

Embattled Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has revealed that her brother lost his Malibu home in the still-raging Palisades wildfires.

California is seeking federal emergency aid from Trump and Congress as it continues to recover from the fires, with several blazes still not fully extinguished. The Palisades fire was at 79 percent containment with an estimated 23,448 acres burned as of Friday night, according to Cal Fire.

LA Mayor Karen Bass and LA Chief Recovery Officer Steve Soboroff discuss efforts to help Pacific Palisades recover and quickly rebuild after the devastating fire.

More than 200 people attended a forum on recovering from the Pacific Palisades fire on Sunday, where they pressed officials on an array of issues.

Corruption is ingrained in Los Angeles,” said Jamie Court, president of Consumer Watchdog, a non-profit public interest group.

As local voters say they have lost confidence in the mayor, a presidential visit gave her a platform to plead her case. Then the president intervened.

President Donald Trump and Los Angeles Karen Bass tangled at a roundtable discussion on the wildfire cleanup in the Pacific Palisades. KAREN BASS, LOS ANGELES MAYOR: Well, and let me just tell you that we are going to do everything we can,

Nearly 153,000 people have signed a petition demanding Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass resign, citing mismanagement of the city's wildfire crisis.

LA Mayor Karen Bass’s popularity has taken a nose dive over her handling of the wildfires, with a shocking number of residents in the famously liberal city now even willing to vote Republican, a

To escape the deadly and historic fire, all residents are now allowed to briefly enter the burn areas so they can survey the destruction. Meanwhile, L.A. Mayor Karen Bass is trying to reassure residents the city is moving as quickly as it can to boost the recovery process.