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LOS ANGELES, CA (WSAU) – As wildfires continue to burn around the city of Los Angeles, several celebrities and thousands of everyday residents have lost their homes and will be looking to either rebuild or relocate when possible.
According to TMZ, celebrities such as Packers superfan and “The Princess Bride” star Cary Elwes, Jeff Bridges, Jamie Lee Curtis, James Woods, Miles Teller, Adam Brody, Jennifer Gray, Mark Hamill, John Goodman, Eugene Levy, Billy Crystal, Anthony Hopkins, Paris Hilton, and Mandy Moore have all reportedly lost their homes as the Palisades Fire has burned through more than 15,800 acres, and the Eaton Fire has destroyed 10,600 acres, both leveling thousands of structures, which JPMorgan estimates may cause losses to surpass $20 billion.
“The devastation is unimaginable. To know so many are waking up today without the place they called home is truly heartbreaking,” Hilton said in a post on Instagram.
Some celebrities have even begun to become critical of the city and state response to the disaster, including “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” star Sarah Michelle Gellar, who posted a message on Instagram on Thursday saying, “City of LA, you want everyone to evacuate, yet you have complete gridlock and not one traffic cop on the roads helping,” and former “90210” actress Sarah Foster posting, “Our fire hydrants were empty. Our vegetation was overgrown, brush not cleared. Our reservoirs were emptied by our governor because tribal leaders wanted to save fish. Our fire department budget was cut by our mayor. But thank God drug addicts are getting their drug kits.”
These responses come just a matter of weeks after Los Angeles County supported Vice President and former California Attorney General Kamala Harris over President-Elect Trump by over thirty percentage points but voted out former far-left District Attorney George Gascon by over twenty percentage points in favor of former federal prosecutor Nathan Hochman, who centered his campaign around the slogan “Restore Our Safety” and ensured voters he’d end policies that let violent offenders out of prison early and pledged to no longer allow organized retail crime to continue.
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