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Sarah Michelle Gellar berated Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Tuesday as the Palisades Fire burned. Los Angeles.
“The city of Los Angeles wants everyone to evacuate, but they have total gridlock and no traffic cop on the roads to help,” Gellar wrote in Instagram stories tagged on the official social media accounts of the city of Los Angeles and Bass .
The Palisades Fire, driven by strong Santa Ana winds, started in the Santa Monica Mountains Tuesday morning and quickly engulfed 200 acres within an hour, growing to nearly 3,000 acres by evening. FOX Weather reported.
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Sarah Michelle Gellar was one of many who criticized Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass as fires raged through Los Angeles neighborhoods. (Getty Images)
Former “Dancing with the stars” Professional dancer Valentin Chmerkovskiy aired his complaints on social media Wednesday, writing: “5th largest economy on the planet. Firefighters didn’t have enough water pressure to do their job?! Are you kidding me? The taxes we pay by the infrastructure of the third world are Incredible?! Come on!”
Sarah Foster wrote in XWe pay the highest taxes in California. Our fire hydrants were empty. Our vegetation was overgrown and the undergrowth had not been cleared. Our governor emptied our reservoirs because tribal leaders wanted to save fish. Our mayor cut our fire department budget. But thank God the drug addicts are receiving their first aid kits. @MayorOfLA @GavinNewsom GIVE UP. His far-left policies have ruined our state. And also our party.”
Celebrity fitness trainer Jillian Michaels recalled losing her home in the Woolsey Fire 2018 while turning to X to criticize California’s leadership.
“The fifth largest economy on the planet. Firefighters didn’t have enough water pressure to do their job?! Are you kidding me? The taxes we pay for third world infrastructure are incredible?!”
“The mayor is apparently in Ghana,” he wrote. “The fire department budget was apparently reduced by 17 million. And someone made the decision not to refill some of the reservoirs; now some fire hydrants are dry. The leadership in California is beyond negligent. This is completely unacceptable” .
In another post, Michaels continued: “California Governor @GavinNewsom issues press release admitting they knew about the incredible fire risk last Sunday because he was proposing fire trucks. And yet he just called in the national guard a few hours ago Pacific Palisades ran out of water at 3 in the morning I am very upset for the people of California who are left My long time friends who live there This is not a partisan issue Incompetence and misprioritization. “.
The Palisades Fire devastates a neighborhood amid strong winds in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damián Dovarganes)
Sarah Michelle Gellar and professional dancer Valentin Chmerkovskiy criticized the leadership’s response to the Los Angeles fires. (Instagram)
James Woods, who lost his home Tuesday in the Palisades Fire, wrote in X that the fire was not due to “climate change” but to “liberal idiots like Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass.”
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“One doesn’t understand anything about fire management and the other doesn’t know how to fill the water tanks,” he added. Woods posted throughout the day as he prepared to evacuate his home, and then gave fans a somber update that he had lost his home in Pacific Palisades.
Steve Gutenberg sprang into action to assist firefighters and moved cars stranded on Sunset Boulevard by residents fleeing the fire, he exclusively told Fox News Digital. “It’s like Zombieland, you know, there are all these abandoned cars all over the street.”
Los Angeles Fire Department Officials confirmed that the Palisades Fire broke out after 11 a.m. near the southeast side of Palisades Drive. Evacuation orders were issued as the fire grew to approximately 200 acres.
Vehicles are left abandoned on the road after their occupants were stuck in traffic while evacuating. (Getty Images)
Gutenberg, known for his roles in “Police Academy” and “Three Men and a Baby,” urged people leaving their vehicles during the evacuation to also leave their keys so crews could get to the fire.
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“What people do is abandon their cars, and it’s a crisis, and they don’t leave the keys in their cars,” Guttenberg told Fox News Digital. “What happens is the fire trucks can’t go up the street because they have all these abandoned cars with no ability to move them. So what I was doing was helping move cars and put them on the hill and clear the way for the department. of firefighters.”
“I just wanted to see what I can do to help some of my neighbors, but it’s a ghost town.”
Gutenberg noted that the fire was “the largest fire we’ve ever seen in the Palisades. It’s huge.”
“We’ve had small fires, but this is definitely the biggest and it’s out of control in certain areas,” he said. “I was able to get here, kind of a pocket where there’s no fire. So everyone’s safe, and I just wanted to see what I can do to help some of my neighbors, but it’s a ghost town. Everyone’s gone. And I think that’s what’s important. That’s how it should be in a big fire like this.”
WATCH: Steve Gutenberg remembers helping fire crews during the Palisades Fire.
Cars are shown after an inferno in Pacific Palisades on January 7, 2025. (KTTV)
Reality TV star Spencer Pratt and his wife Heidi Montag lost their home in the fire of the palisadesthey confirmed on their Snapchat accounts on Tuesday. In a series of videos, Star of “The Hills” showed how the fire moved quickly over the hill toward his property.
“Well, this isn’t looking good,” Pratt said as he videotaped the fire on the mountain behind his home. “It’s the first time I’ve seen the flames getting closer. Oh, man. Okay, I think I’m going to go pack.”
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He later posted a video from his car indicating that he was watching his house burn on his security cameras. Pratt shared a photo of her son’s room and said it had been burned into the shape of a heart.
A tanker plane crashes on the Palisades Fire. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Spencer Pratt shared images from inside her home, captured by security cameras. (Spencer Pratt Snapchat)
Chris Pratt offered prayers to evacuees and those who couldn’t get out of the fires. (Rodin Eckenroth/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images)
Chris Pratt posted on X and asked that people join him in praying for “the brave firefighters who sacrificed so much to save our homes and our city.”
“Jesus protects the lives of those fighting the flames and the lives of those who could not evacuate,” he wrote.
Former Food Network personality Sandra Lee shared a carousel of images from Malibu on Tuesday before revealing Wednesday morning that she had lost her home.
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“Good morning, thank you for all your good wishes. I’m in a hotel. I no longer have a house, my house is gone. It literally disappeared,” he said. “I’ve been crying all night. Thank God everyone is safe.
“I don’t know what to say, I don’t know how to compartmentalize this, I don’t know what to do… all my stuff, all the last five years of my life. So all I can do is go to work, and I’m going to go to work.” work today like I’m going to work every day and I’m going to rebuild it, I don’t know how.
