President Biden plans to speak Thursday after being briefed at the White House about the wildfires destroying neighborhoods across the greater Los Angeles area, where roughly 179,000 people have been forced to evacuate their homes.

Multiple fires are burning in the Los Angeles area, forcing thousands to flee their homes and destroying hundreds of buildings. President Biden approved a major disaster declaration Wednesday afternoon to help California boost the ranks of those battling the blazes.

"He is the blame for this," Trump wrote about Newsom on his social media platform Truth Social on Wednesday, but Newsom's office called that "fiction."