Canada and Mexico have sent firefighting crews to help battle the blazes in the Los Angeles area, and Ukraine also has offered assistance. But social media posts misleadingly claim "$00,000,000" in "foreign aid" has been offered to the U.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo said that her country was sending support in part because many Mexican people live in the Los Angeles area.

Canadian officials are preparing retaliatory measures if the new U.S. administration imposes tariffs on Canadian imports.

Tapper: President-Elect Trump has been talking about making Canada the 51st state. Trudeau: That's not going to happen. Canadians are incredibly proud of being Canadian. One of the ways we define ourselves most easily is, well, we're not American. pic.twitter.com/4PHmxJvjP1

President-elect Trump recently remarked Canada should be the “51st state” of the United States. Along with comments about annexing Greenland and the Panama Canal, it’s not clear if he is serious or saying off-handed things for political effect.

Several readers asked whether Mexico and Canada sent support to California as destructive wildfires burn in the Los Angeles area. That’s true.

Despite the president-elect’s insults and threats, America’s closest neighbors have pitched in to battle the wildfires consuming Southern California.

Mexico and Canada rushed aid to help combat the LA fires because that's what good neighbors do. You listening, MAGA?

As the Mexican saying goes, “sin maíz no hay país” — without corn, there is no country. But without economic integration, there is no prosperity. Mexico and the U.S. must safeguard the hard-won gains of North American trade for the benefit of all.

The deployments come days before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, who has threatened the United States’ largest trade partners with tariffs.

As major fires continue to rage in and around Los Angeles, help battling the blazes has come from across the country — and from across international borders, including from Canada and Mexico.