Evacuated residents are waiting in their cars for hours to get permission to return to Los Angeles neighborhoods devastated by the Palisades Fire, which has been burning for three weeks and destroyed thousands of homes and other structures.

For the first time since the devastating Palisades fire ignited on Jan. 7, all Pacific Palisades residents can now return to their properties.

Some Pacific Palisades residents said they waited on line for more than two hours Tuesday to get approval to go back to their homes.

President Donald Trump, who has criticized state and local leaders over what he calls faulty water-management policies that he says contributed to the region’s deadly wildfires, arrived in Los Angeles Friday.

President Trump surveyed destruction in Pacific Palisades by air and on foot during his visit to Los Angeles County on Friday afternoon, but he did not visit the ravaged community of Altadena.