I’m a Scot in LA – I watched my house burn down in the wildfires, I’ve lost everything
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A SCOTS actor last night told of his devastation after his new home was burned to the ground in the California wildfires. Rory Macrae, from Edinburgh, only moved into the property in Pacific Palisades two months ago with his parents Tom and Carol. They have now been left homeless just two months after moving to the celebrity enclave, where the deadly blazes took a grip before devastating swathes across Los Angeles.
![[House with two-car garage and basketball hoop.]](https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/NINTCHDBPICT000963482501.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Exhausted crews are finally starting to get the devastating infernos which killed 27 people under control. Around 200,000 residents have been forced to evacuate. The neighbourhood is one of the worst hit inferno zones as at least 16 people died and hundreds of thousands were forced to flee their homes.
![[Fire-damaged houses and street.]](https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/NINTCHDBPICT000963482271.jpg?strip=all&w=542)
Speaking from a hotel in Beverly Hills, the shocked actor, 27, said: “We watched it from the very start. My mum went and made tea and came back and there was smoke in the air. “We were grabbing our things to go and I knew it was serious when I could see flames coming down the hill towards us.
![[Man kneeling with a yellow Labrador retriever in front of a white fence.]](https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/NINTCHDBPICT000963482500.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
“We had to go out and ask a neighbour who I hadn’t met yet if he could give us a lift with our suitcase and backpack. “I have security cameras and I looked back at them and started seeing one or two little embers from the fires coming. “At that point I couldn’t watch anymore but I checked again a few hours later and all the cameras were offline.
![[Wildfire smoke obscuring a building.]](https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/NINTCHDBPICT000963482316.jpg?strip=all&w=640)
