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Hollywood actress Elizabeth Chambers says the government didn’t do enough during the Fires in Los Angeles.
During an interview with Fox News Digital, Chambers, 42, was asked if he believed city officials did everything they could to contain the Los Angeles fires.
“I think it was a disaster,” he said. “I don’t think anyone was prepared. I think it’s on a scale that no one anticipated.”
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Elizabeth Chambers told Fox News Digital what she grabbed when she and her children had to evacuate during the Los Angeles fires. (Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for Vanity Fair)
Chambers shared his feelings about the billionaire real estate developer and former Los Angeles mayoral candidate. Rick Caruso.
“And then Caruso saved Palisades Village… You can get political, or you can’t. But, at the end of the day, he had as much time as everyone else to prepare… I mean, it’s intact. It’s eerily intact.”
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“The music is still playing in Palisades Village, like it’s Disneyland and everything around it is destruction. So do I think the measures were taken appropriately and quickly enough? Absolutely not.”
Caruso, who ran unsuccessfully against Karen Bass for mayor in 2022, previously said the nonexistent water supply when the Palisades Fire burned multimillion-dollar real estate to ashes represented “absolute mismanagement on the part of the city.”
Rick Caruso criticized the lack of water in the Palisades. (Getty Images)
“There is no water in the Palisades. There is no water coming out of the fire hydrants. This is absolute mismanagement on the part of the city. It’s not the fire department’s fault, it’s the city’s fault,” Caruso said. Fox11 Los Angeles when the fires raged.
Deadly fires broke out in the Los Angeles area on January 7, forcing tens of thousands of residents to flee for safety as their homes and businesses were destroyed. Authorities said Thursday that more than 30 people remain missing, while two additional deaths raised the death toll to 27.
“So, do I think the measures were taken appropriately and quickly? Absolutely not.”
Firefighters watch a helicopter drop water on the Palisades Fire in Mandeville Canyon in Los Angeles on January 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Chambers detailed the moment she had to evacuate and immediately gathered her and her children’s personal belongings.
“I took our passports. I took birth certificates. I took pictures like that… they were in the house… older family photos,” he explained to Fox News Digital. “I only packed for a couple of nights.”
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Chambers said that when he evacuated, “he took our passports. I took birth certificates. I took pictures like that…they were around the house…older family photos.” (Morgan Lieberman/FilmMagic/Getty Images)
The television personality has two children with her ex-husband, armed hammer, and shared how he explained the tragic California fires to his young children, daughter Harper, 10, and son Ford, 7.
“I think in any parenting issue, you have to be the captain of the plane… If the captain of the plane panics, the passengers panic. And in general, I approach parenting children that way,” he told Fox News Digital. .
Chambers has two children with ex-husband Armie Hammer, daughter Harper, 10, and son Ford, 7. (Paul Bruinooge/Patrick McMullan)
“But if the pilot of the plane doesn’t panic and say everything’s fine, and you know you’re about to crash, you don’t trust the pilot either. So, you know, it’s transparency. It’s really honest conversations and reassurances.
“You can tell a lot of people are losing their homes right now. We have everything that’s important. And no matter what, we’re a family. We’re healthy and we’re together. And we’ll always have a place to live, and that’s what what can be said,” he said.
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Chambers is helping raise money for California fire victims through her charity Cupcake for a Cause.
The owner of Bird Bakery is donating 100% of the proceeds from his Strawberry Lemonade Cupcake to the Los Angeles Fire Department through February 1st.
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“Over the past nearly 13 years in business, we have consistently created CUPCAKE FOR A CAUSE™️ to benefit a multitude of tragedies and events in our community and beyond, and this is no exception,” Chambers’ company posted on Instagram earlier this week. .
“My children and I have been evacuated for the last 7 days and are still praying for the safety of our home, but we are the lucky ones. This truly has been the most devastating and unthinkable thing for many, and this is our chance to help.”
“It’s a vanilla cake with folded strawberry slices and lemon buttercream,” Chambers told Fox News Digital. “And we’ve already sold a lot in the last few days, and that money goes directly to the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation.”
He noted that flavor is significant because 90% of all strawberries grown in the United States come from California and “we’re turning lemons into lemonade.”
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Fox News Digital’s Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.
