From the Sacramento Bee: Los Angeles County firefighting aircraft will more readily be allowed to make night flights against wildfires on U.S. Forest Service lands this season.

The Forest Service earlier this year announced a tentative deal to loosen restrictions after months of criticism of its handling of a 2009 blaze in the Angeles National Forest that destroyed dozens of home and threatened thousands of others in foothill suburbs as it grew to 250 square miles.Read the entire article here,