Celebrities among thousands to flee homes as Los Angeles wildfires rage
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Blazes devastate affluent Pacific Palisades with more than 30,000 people under evacuation orders. Fast-moving wildfires raging through Los Angeles have left Hollywood movie actors and reality TV stars fleeing their hillside mansions, as wind-whipped blazes devastated affluent neighbourhoods along the coast.
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More than 30,000 people have been put under evacuation orders in LA, and a state of emergency has been declared as the infernos swept through the Pacific Palisades, a ritzy area near Malibu popular with celebrities. Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, said he was evacuated from Malibu and told people in the area to “stay safe”. On his social media, he said there were small fires on both sides of the road as he fled.
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The reality TV star Heidi Montag and her husband, Spencer Pratt, lost their home to the flames. The couple were primary cast members of The Hills, the reality TV hit that chronicled the lives of young socialites, and married in 2009. Pratt had filmed the fire spreading on Instagram, showing arid hills and black smoke. His sister, Stephanie, later confirmed her brother’s house had been destroyed, saying the wind was so strong that it was impossible to save the building.
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In LA, film premieres were cancelled, including the British singer Robbie Williams’s biopic Better Man, and the Screen Actors Guild awards cancelled an in-person nominations announcement planned for Wednesday morning. The actor Eugene Levy from American Pie and the TV show Schitt’s Creek evacuated on Tuesday, telling the Los Angeles Times while stuck in traffic, “The smoke looked pretty black and intense.”.
