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Dean Cain, who grew up in Malibu, California, told Fox News Digital that every house he ever lived in there, and in nearby Pacific Palisades, was destroyed during this week’s disaster. Wildfires in the Los Angeles area.
“I ended up having three different houses in Pacific Palisades, one that I owned and two that I rented and lived in,” Cain said. “The three (houses) of those Pacific Palisades, all burned, are gone. It looks like Pacific Palisades someone dropped a nuclear weapon on it and just flattened everything. I’ve never seen anything like that. Also, three of the houses I lived in in Malibu already “They’re not there.”
The “Lois & Clark” star called out the devastation “shocking and horrible, but not unexpected. It’s part of the reason I left California “It was this perfect storm of mismanagement and lack of leadership.”
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Dean Cain, who grew up in Malibu, California, told Fox News Digital that all of the homes he lived in there and in nearby Pacific Palisades have been destroyed during this week’s wildfires. (Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Associated Television International | AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Cain said when the Woolsey Fire hit in 2018, it burned his backyard but not his house.
“We’re used to this in Malibu,” he explained. “We have the wind, we have the fire, so we know how to deal with that. But when they take away all your tools, no money, no brush clearing, no controlled burns, all those things, you end up in a catastrophic situation like this.”
Cain said that although his house survived the wool fireHis fire insurance was subsequently canceled, and he added that was part of the reason he left California for Henderson, Nevada, in 2018.
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“It looks like someone dropped a nuclear weapon on top of Pacific Palisades and crushed everything,” Cain said. (Michael Ho Wai Lee / Sipa via AP)
“There are many of us who have been shouting from the rooftops, including President Trump, on numerous occasions, back in his first presidency,” he continued. “He’s been saying it, bad management is going to cost him. Taking money out of the fire budget is going to cost him. Uncontrolled burning is going to cost him. Not storing water is going to cost him.”
Cain placed the blame squarely on the Democrats Governor Gavin Newsom.
“You screwed up, Gavin Newsom. You screwed up,” he said. “There was a lot of water. Last year there was record rainfall or the year before, record rainfall. Thaw, it reserved the water.”
California Governor Gavin Newsom (R) surveys the damage caused by the fire on Wednesday. (MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)
Cain said his water bill ran into the thousands a month when he lived in Malibu and he couldn’t get fire insurance for less than about $40,000 a year.
His son helped him realize that he should leave the state by reminding him that he is still “complaining about fiscal policy, about the lack of common sense policies. Why do we live there?”
“I was like, ‘Why are we here? What am I doing?'” he said. “And it was strange to leave my home forever, but to come here now (Henderson, Nevada) and be in this beautiful house with great policies, you know, the castle doctrine, ‘stand by foot’. things about your land and things like that, I was like, ‘Wait a minute, this makes a lot of sense.’ And then, watching the disaster unfold, I am horrified. My heart breaks for the people suffering at the hands of this mismanagement. “But I hope that teaches them about common sense.”
He added that “good times create weak men and weak men create difficult times.”
The remains of Rosenthal Wines in Malibu, California. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
“Weak policy creates difficult times. Now we are in difficult times. We need strong men to be able to create good times again. That’s how things are. Strong men and women, sensible politics. Everyone will be in a better position,” Cain said.
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Cain went on to say that he believes liberal people in Hollywood have typically “voted for all these things that don’t really affect them,” “but when it does affect them, they can’t get a permit to rebuild or their house burns down.” or people loot your house afterwards; suddenly you love the police, you love the firefighters, you love the people you’ve been denigrating for years. “You want common sense politics.”
“So once it hits you, your votes change,” he said. “And I think this is going to become a very, very blue state, much redder. I hope California turns purple and I hope… listen, my heart goes out to those who have lost everything. And I know that there will be years and years of bureaucratic procedures, nightmares, disappeared memories. It will be one of those catastrophic events in their lives. And I hope this wakes people up to start voting for policies that make sense, common sense, and prepare for these kinds of things in the future.”
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Flames and smoke rise from structures as the Palisades Fire burns in Southern California on Wednesday. (Reuters/Ringo Chiu)
“So once it affects you, your votes change. And I think this is going to become a very, very blue, much redder state. I hope California turns purple.”
Because he lives in the desert, Cain said he has enough food in his car to last several days and that he and his son have satellite radios in addition to their cellphones to communicate with each other.
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““It’s not that I’m a survivor or a prepper, because it’s common sense,” he said.
But Cain said: ““When you see a tragedy of this magnitude, you see how incredible the American people are and how they come together.”
“And there has been an outpouring of support, food, water and basic necessities,” he added. “We are the most generous nation in human history. We will continue to be, you know, as fractured as we can be, (but) there are times in natural disasters, in war and things of that nature, when in the United States people come together. And it’s wonderful to see that happen. “It’s going to be a very long and hard road.”
Beachfront properties have been destroyed by the Palisades Fire. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Cain noted that, given the nature of the national news cycle, the devastation of the wildfires would be replaced by more recent news within a few weeks, “but all these people’s lives are turned upside down.”
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““I can’t imagine the magnitude of what happened to Palisades,” he continued. “It’s shocking to me. Palisades High School, defunct. I mean, football games. I played at Palisades High School. Dozens… It’s gone. It just disappeared. As if a big part of my childhood had disappeared. I walked away because of the terrible policies. It’s just heartbreaking to see this happen. I don’t want to say I told you, but I told you.”
The charred remains of Palisades High School in Pacific Palisades, California. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
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Cain said his mother, who is with him in Nevada, can’t stop crying as she sees the devastation.
“The house they built from scratch… is ruined,” he said, adding, “my mom has been crying for two days.”
Cain added that he feels leaving Malibu for Henderson is “one of the smartest things I’ve ever done.”
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“I feel like I’ve been liberated,” he said. “A lot of people will say, ‘You came out just in time. And I did it. And because I was lucky enough to have the means and had a son, my son Christopher said to me, ‘Dad, let’s go.’ ‘And life here is much easier and much better. Beautiful neighborhoods and much more value for your money… super low taxes compared to California, super low regulations compared to California… we are smarter politics. in the middle of the desert here in Nevada. We have better water rights, and they say water here is expensive. “It’s cheaper for me to get water here than in California… So it was absolutely the right decision on my part.”
