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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Wildfires that are burning successful and astir Los Angeles person burned the homes of respective celebrities, including Billy Crystal, Mandy Moore and Paris Hilton.
California firefighters are battling wind-whipped fires tearing crossed the area, destroying homes, clogging roadways arsenic tens of thousands fled and straining resources arsenic the fires burned uncontained Wednesday.
Crystal and his wife, Janice, released a connection Wednesday saying their location of 45 years successful the Pacific Palisades vicinity was lost.
"Janice and I lived successful our location since 1979. We raised our children and grandchildren here. Every inch of our location was filled with love. Beautiful memories that can’t beryllium taken away. We are heartbroken of people but with the emotion of our children and friends we volition get done this,” the Crystals wrote successful the statement.
Their vicinity is simply a hillside country on the seashore dotted with personage residences and memorialized by the Beach Boys successful their 1960s deed “Surfin’ USA.” In the frantic haste to get to safety, roadways became impassable erstwhile scores of radical abandoned their vehicles and fled connected foot, immoderate toting suitcases.
“Evacuated Malibu truthful past minute,” wrote Hamill successful an Instagram station Tuesday night. “Small fires connected some sides of the roadworthy arsenic we approached (the Pacific Coast Highway).”
Less than 72 hours before, Hollywood’s highest-wattage stars had convened to locomotion the Golden Globes’ reddish carpet, the archetypal large lawsuit of the exuberant and, for many, triumphant awards season. The revelry of awards play had rapidly been snuffed out, too: Premieres of contenders similar “Better Man” and “The Last Showgirl” were canceled, the Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations were announced via property merchandise alternatively of astatine a unrecorded lawsuit and play events similar the AFI Awards were preemptively scrubbed.
The Oscar nominations are besides being delayed 2 days to Jan. 19 and the movie academy has extended the voting model to accommodate members affected by the fires.
Here's however celebrities and amusement companies are being impacted by the fires burning successful and astir Los Angeles:
Stars who mislaid homes successful the wildfires
Moore mislaid her location successful the Altadena vicinity adjacent Pasadena.
“Honestly, I’m successful daze and feeling numb for each truthful galore person lost, including my family. My children’s schoolhouse is gone. Our favourite restaurants, leveled. So galore friends and loved ones person mislaid everything too,” the actor-singer wrote connected Instagram successful a station that included video of devastated streets successful the foothill suburb.
“Our assemblage is breached but we volition beryllium present to rebuild together. Sending emotion to each affected and connected the beforehand lines trying to get this nether control,” Moore wrote.
The Crystals expressed a akin sentiment astir the Palisades. “The Pacific Palisades is simply a resilient assemblage of astonishing radical and we cognize successful clip it volition emergence again. It is our home,” they wrote.
Elwes, the prima of “The Princess Bride” and galore different films, wrote connected Instagram Wednesday that his household was harmless but their location had burned successful the coastal Palisades fire. “Sadly we did suffer our location but we are grateful to person survived this genuinely devastating fire,” Elwes wrote.
Hilton posted a quality video clip connected Instagram and said it included footage of her destroyed location successful Malibu. "This location was wherever we built truthful galore precious memories. It’s wherever Phoenix took his archetypal steps and wherever we dreamed of gathering a beingness of memories with London," she said, referencing her young children.
“The devastation is unimaginable. To cognize truthful galore are waking up contiguous without the spot they called location is genuinely heartbreaking,” she wrote.
Stars who person evacuated owed to Palisades fire
Jamie Lee Curtis said Wednesday connected Instagram that her household is safe, but she suggested her vicinity and perchance her location is connected fire. She said galore of her friends mislaid their homes.
“It's a terrifying concern and I'm grateful to the firefighters and each of the bully Samaritans who are helping radical get retired of the mode of the blaze."
Other stars who person homes successful the country see Adam Sandler, Ben Affleck, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg.
Many are awaiting connection connected whether their homes survived the flames.
James Woods posted footage Tuesday of flames burning done bushes and past thenar trees connected a elevation adjacent his home. The towering orangish flames billowed among the landscaped yards betwixt the homes.
“Standing successful my driveway, getting acceptable to evacuate,” Woods said successful the abbreviated video connected X. Later, helium confirmed helium had evacuated and added: “It tests your soul, losing everything astatine once, I indispensable say.”
Impact of the occurrence truthful far
Officials didn’t springiness an estimation of structures damaged oregon destroyed successful the wildfire, but they said astatine slightest 70,000 residents were nether evacuation orders and astir 30,000 structures were nether threat.
The occurrence burned down Temescal Canyon, a fashionable hiking country surrounded by dense neighborhoods of multimillion-dollar homes. Flames jumped celebrated Sunset Boulevard and burned parts of the Palisades Charter High School, which has been featured successful galore Hollywood productions including the 1976 fearfulness movie “Carrie,” the 2003 remake of “Freaky Friday” and the TV bid “Teen Wolf.”
The Palisades occurrence besides destroyed the historical ranch location that belonged to Hollywood fable Will Rogers. It was among aggregate structures destroyed astatine some Will Rogers State Historic Park and Topanga State Park. The historical Topanga Ranch Motel, built by William Randolph Hearst successful 1929, besides burned down.
Rogers’ ranch, built connected onshore helium bought successful the 1920s, occupied immoderate 359 acres successful what is present Pacific Palisades. It included a 31-room ranch house, a stable, play people and riding trails. His woman donated it to California State Parks successful 1944.
The Critics Choice Awards, primitively scheduled for Sunday, person been postponed until Feb. 26.
Film studios canceled 2 movie premieres owed to the occurrence and windy weather, the Universal Studios Hollywood taxable parkland closed for the time owed to the smoky and windy conditions and the J. Paul Getty Trust said 2 of its museums, the Getty Villa and Getty Center, would stay closed for the adjacent fewer days.
Universal Studios besides canceled shooting for galore series, including “Hacks,” “Ted Lasso” and “Suits LA.”
The Walt Disney Co. closed its office successful Burbank, and canceled accumulation connected respective series, including “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Doctor Odyssey.” ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” which tapes successful Hollywood, was canceled for Wednesday and volition alternatively aerial a repeat.
The accumulation pauses added to further disruptions to the movie and TV manufacture successful Los Angeles, including the cancellation of the premiere to Universal’s “Wolf Man” and postponement of the American Film Institute awards gala, scheduled for Friday.
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AP Entertainment Writers Jake Coyle, Jocelyn Noveck, Lindsey Bahr and Jonathan Landrum Jr. contributed to this report.
