Sarah Michelle Gellar chastised Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Tuesday because the Palisades Fire burned in Los Angeles.
“City of LA you need everybody to evacuate but you might have full gridlock and never one site visitors cop on the roads serving to,” Gellar wrote on Instagram tales with tags to the official social media accounts for the City of Los Angeles and Bass.
The Palisades Fire, pushed by robust Santa Ana winds, started within the Santa Monica Mountains late Tuesday morning and shortly engulfed 200 acres inside an hour, surging to just about 3,000 acres by sundown, FOX Weather reported.
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Sarah Michelle Gellar was one in every of many who criticized L.A. Mayor Karen Bass as fires roared by means of Los Angeles neighborhoods. (Getty Images)
Former “Dancing with the Stars” skilled dancer Valentin Chmerkovskiy aired grievances on social media Wednesday, writing, “fifth largest economic system on the planet. Firefighters did not have sufficient water strain to do their jobs?! Are you joking me?! The taxes we pay for third world infrastructure is unbelievable?! Come on.”
Sara Foster wrote on X, We pay the best taxes in California. Our hearth hydrants had been empty. Our vegetation was overgrown, brush not cleared. Our reservoirs had been emptied by our governor as a result of tribal leaders needed to save lots of fish. Our hearth division funds was reduce by our mayor. But thank god drug addicts are getting their drug kits. @MayorOfLA @GavinNewsom RESIGN. Your far left insurance policies have ruined our state. And additionally our social gathering.”
Celebrity health coach Jillian Michaels remembered dropping her dwelling within the 2018 Woolsey Fire as she took to X to criticize California’s management.
“fifth largest economic system on the planet. Firefighters did not have sufficient water strain to do their jobs?! Are you joking me?! The taxes we pay for third world infrastructure is unbelievable?!”
“The mayor is seemingly in Ghana,” she wrote. “The hearth departments funds was apparently reduce by 17 mil. And somebody made the choice to not refill a number of the reservoirs – now some hearth hydrants are dry. Leadership in California is past negligent. This is totally unacceptable.”
In one other submit, Michaels continued, “California governor @GavinNewsom points a press launch admitting they knew concerning the insane hearth threat this previous Sunday as a result of he was propositioning hearth engines. And but, he simply referred to as within the nationwide guard a couple of hours in the past. Pacific Palisades ran out of water at 3am. I’m so so upset for the individuals of California. My household who stayed. My lifelong buddies who reside there. Our courageous firefighters. This will not be a partisan challenge it’s pure incompetence and misprioritization.”
The Palisades Fire ravages a neighborhood amid excessive winds within the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Sarah Michelle Gellar {and professional} dancer Valentin Chmerkovskiy criticized management response to the L.A. fires. (Instagram)
James Woods, who misplaced his dwelling Tuesday within the Palisades Fire, wrote on X that the blaze wasn’t from “local weather change” however because of “liberal idiots like Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass.”
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“One would not perceive the very first thing about hearth administration and the opposite cannot fill the water reservoirs,” he added. Woods posted all through the day as he ready to evacuate his dwelling, and he later gave followers a somber replace that he had misplaced his home within the Pacific Palisades.
Steve Guttenberg sprang into motion to assist firefighters and moved automobiles stranded on Sunset Boulevard by residents fleeing the hearth, he solely advised Fox News Digital. “It’s type of like Zombieland, you understand, there’s all these deserted automobiles everywhere in the road.”
Los Angeles Fire Department officers confirmed the Palisades Fire broke out after 11 a.m. close to the southeast facet of Palisades Drive. Evacuation orders had been issued because the blaze grew to roughly 200 acres in dimension.
Vehicles are deserted on the street after occupants bought caught in site visitors whereas evacuating. (Getty Images)
Guttenberg – recognized for his roles in “Police Academy” and “Three Men and a Baby” – urged individuals who had been leaving their automobiles behind whereas evacuating to additionally depart their keys so crews might make their method by means of to the hearth.
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“What individuals do is that they abandon their automobiles, and it is a disaster, and so they do not depart their keys of their automobiles,” Guttenberg advised Fox News Digital. “What occurs is, the hearth vehicles cannot rise up the road as a result of they’ve all these deserted automobiles with no potential to maneuver them. So what I used to be doing was serving to out transfer automobiles and put them up on the hill and clear the best way for the hearth division.”
“I simply needed to see what I can do to assist out a few of my neighbors, however it’s a ghost city.”
Guttenberg famous the blaze was “the most important hearth that we have ever seen within the Palisades. It’s huge.”
“We’ve had small fires, however that is undoubtedly the most important one, and it is simply burning uncontrolled in sure areas,” he mentioned. “I used to be in a position to make it up right here, kind of a pocket the place there isn’t a hearth. So all people’s secure, and I simply needed to see what I can do to assist out a few of my neighbors, however it’s a ghost city. Everybody’s gone. And I feel that is what’s vital. That’s what it needs to be in a giant hearth like this.”
WATCH: Steve Guttenberg recollects serving to hearth crews in the course of the Palisades hearth.
Cars are pictured within the aftermath of a Pacific Palisades inferno on Jan. 7, 2025. (KTTV)
Reality TV star Spencer Pratt and spouse Heidi Montag misplaced their dwelling in the Palisades Fire, they confirmed on their Snapchat accounts Tuesday. In a collection of movies, “The Hills” star confirmed how the hearth shortly moved over the hill towards their property.
“Well, this is not wanting good,” Pratt mentioned whereas videoing the hearth on the mountain behind their dwelling. “First time I’ve seen the flames coming over. Aw, man. OK, I’m going to go pack up, I feel.”
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He later posted a video from his automotive stating that he was watching their dwelling burn down on their safety cameras. Pratt shared a photograph of his child’s room, saying it had burned within the form of a coronary heart.
An airtanker makes a drop on the Palisades Fire. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times by way of Getty Images)
Spencer Pratt shared imagery from inside his dwelling, captured by safety cameras. (Spencer Pratt Snapchat)
Chris Pratt supplied prayers to evacuees and people who weren’t in a position to depart the fires. (Rodin Eckenroth/GA/The Hollywood Reporter by way of Getty Images)
Chris Pratt posted on X and requested that individuals be part of him in praying for “the courageous firefighters sacrificing a lot to save lots of our homes and our city.”
“Jesus shield the lives of these battling the flames and the lives of those that couldn’t evacuate,” he wrote.
Former Food Network character Sandra Lee shared a carousel of images from round Malibu on Tuesday earlier than revealing Wednesday morning that she had misplaced her dwelling.
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“Good morning, thanks for all of your well-wishes. I’m at a resort. I haven’t got a house anymore, my home is gone. It’s actually gone,” she mentioned. “I’ve been crying all night time. Thank God all people is secure.
“I do not know what to say, I do not know learn how to compartmentalize this, I do not know what to do … all my stuff, all of the final 5 years of my life. So, the one factor I can do is go to work, and I’m going to go to work immediately like I’m going to work day by day. And I’m going to rebuild it, I feel. I do not know the way.”
