LOS ANGELES (AP) — Wildfires that ripped via the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles compelled many Hollywood stars, together with Mark Hamill, Mandy Moore and James Woods, to evacuate their houses.
California firefighters are battling wind-whipped fires tearing throughout the world, destroying houses, clogging roadways as tens of hundreds fled and straining sources because the fires burned uncontained early Wednesday.
The Pacific Palisades neighborhood is a hillside space alongside the coast dotted with movie star residences and memorialized by the Seashore Boys of their Nineteen Sixties hit “Surfin’ USA.” Within the frantic haste to get to security, roadways grew to become impassable when scores of individuals deserted their autos and fled on foot, some toting suitcases.
“Evacuated Malibu so final minute,” wrote Hamill in an Instagram put up Tuesday night time. “Small fires on either side of the highway as we approached (the Pacific Coast Freeway).”
Lower than 72 hours earlier than, Hollywood’s highest-wattage stars had convened to stroll the Golden Globes’ purple carpet, the primary main occasion of the exuberant and, for a lot of, triumphant awards season. The revelry of awards season had rapidly been snuffed out, too: Premieres of contenders like “Higher Man” and “The Final Showgirl” had been canceled, the Display screen Actors Guild Awards nominations had been introduced by way of press launch as an alternative of at a stay occasion and weekend occasions just like the AFI Awards had been preemptively scrubbed.
Right here’s how celebrities and leisure firms are being impacted by the fires burning in and round Los Angeles:
Stars who’ve evacuated attributable to Palisades hearth
Jamie Lee Curtis stated Wednesday on Instagram that her household is secure, however she steered her neighborhood and presumably her house is on hearth. She stated lots of her associates misplaced their houses.
“It’s a terrifying state of affairs and I’m grateful to the firefighters and all the good Samaritans who’re serving to folks get out of the best way of the blaze.”
Different stars who’ve houses within the space embrace Adam Sandler, Ben Affleck, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg.
Many are awaiting phrase on whether or not their houses survived the flames.
Mandy Moore stated her household evacuated too and has since tried to defend her youngsters from the “immense disappointment and fear” that she presently feels.
“So gutted for the destruction and loss,” she posted in her Instagram story. “Don’t know if our place made it.”
Woods posted footage Tuesday of flames burning via bushes and previous palm bushes on a hill close to his dwelling. The towering orange flames billowed among the many landscaped yards between the houses.
“Standing in my driveway, on the point of evacuate,” Woods stated within the brief video on X. Later, he confirmed he had evacuated and added: “It exams your soul, shedding every thing directly, I have to say.”
Affect of the hearth to date
Officers didn’t give an estimate of buildings broken or destroyed within the wildfire, however they stated at the least 70,000 residents had been below evacuation orders and almost 30,000 buildings had been below menace.
The hearth burned down Temescal Canyon, a well-liked mountaineering space surrounded by dense neighborhoods of multimillion-dollar houses. Flames jumped well-known Sundown Boulevard and burned elements of the Palisades Constitution Excessive Faculty, which has been featured in lots of Hollywood productions together with the 1976 horror film “Carrie,” the 2003 remake of “Freaky Friday” and the TV collection “Teen Wolf.”
Movie studios canceled two film premieres because of the hearth and windy climate, the Common Studios Hollywood theme park closed for the day because of the smoky and windy circumstances and the J. Paul Getty Belief stated two of its museums, the Getty Villa and Getty Heart, would stay closed for the following few days.
Common Studios additionally canceled capturing for quite a few collection, together with “Hacks,” “Ted Lasso” and “Fits LA.”
The Walt Disney Co. closed its headquarters in Burbank, and canceled manufacturing on a number of collection, together with “Gray’s Anatomy” and “Physician Odyssey.” ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Reside!” which tapes in Hollywood, was canceled for Wednesday and can as an alternative air a repeat.
The manufacturing pauses added to additional disruptions to the movie and TV trade in Los Angeles, together with the cancellation of the premiere to Common’s “Wolf Man” and postponement of the American Movie Institute awards gala, scheduled for Friday.
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