The US President will meet with frontline emergency services in California, but has been criticised for ignoring the role of climate change in the country's wildfire disaster. 9News
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said: "It's taken three weeks. I'm glad he's coming but we need much more help.
"I think leadership at the very top needs to be earlier, stronger, and from the President I wish that we would get as much attention not based on an electoral map but just purely on being Americans. "It's been very clear that years of drought, as we're seeing, whether it's too much water and too much rain in parts of our country right now, or too little. This is climate change and this is an administration that's put its head in the sand," he said.
"They are fighting and it's dangerous. It's dangerous. It's a rapidly spreading, hundreds of thousands of acres there's not been anything quite like this one. "And it is maddening right now that when we have this cosmic challenge to our communities, with the entire West Coast of the United States on fire, to have a president to deny that... these are climate fires.
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