Celebrities Evacuate Homes As Devastating Wildfires Rip Through SoCal — See Photos
Nov. 9 2018, Published 8:07 p.m. ET
The terrifying California wildfires are hitting ritzy celebrity communities hard, as RadarOnline.com's devastating photos show. Hidden Hills resident Kim Kardashian had to evacuate her lavish home, and then, it was reported her stepdad Caitlyn Jenner's Malibu property burned to the ground! Other Malibu-based stars such as Camille Grammer, Alyssa Milano, and Melissa Etheridge also revealed that they had to run for their lives. The fiery inferno caused authorities to order affected residents to leave after Santa Ana winds caused the blaze to spread. Now, Jenner has lost her multi-million dollar spread and other celebrities fear the same fate. Scroll through RadarOnline.com's gallery for more.
As RadarOnline.com previously reported, Kim Kardashian took to social media on Thursday night to announce that she was being evacuated from her Hidden Hills mansion due to the fast-moving wildfire. "Pray for Calabasas. Just landed back home and had 1 hour to pack up & evacuate our home. I pray everyone is safe," she wrote on an image of the flames as seen from her plane.
Kardashian's stepparent Caitlyn Jenner, 69, has reportedly suffered much worse than an evacuation—his property has been destroyed. The transgender star's house, which was featured on her reality show I Am Cait, sat on top of a ridge overlooking the Malibu beach area but was reduced to ashes on Friday, a website reported.
Marvel's Doctor Strange Director Scott Derrickson revealed he's also lost his home due to the fires. He lives in the Thousand Oaks area and tweeted the sad news on Friday morning, writing, "We lost our home, but we are all safe and that’s the important thing. Gonna be offline for awhile."
Another big movie director, Guillermo del Toro, was forced to evacuate his home. The Shape of Water filmmaker tweeted that he evacuated his Thousand Oaks house on Thursday night. Del Toro's home is full of priceless of movie and comics memorabilia. But he bravely wrote online in Spanish, "The trinkets are either lost or replaced. The memories are remembered. What is lost can be spoken of - everything continues as long as one is alive."
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Alyssa Milano said she was evacuating as well, informing her fans on social media, "I took my kids, dogs, computer and my Doc Marten boots. (Husband is in NY. Horses are being evacuated by my trainer.)" For a scary Instagram post, Camille Grammer sounded like she's was out of breath while videotaping the fire from her bedroom in the hard-hit fire zone.
Thousands of people in Malibu, Calabasas, and Thousand Oaks were asked to leave their homes, including former The Office star Rainn Wilson. He tweeted that he had been forced to evacuate, and that his pigs and dogs were okay.
Melissa Etheridge tweeted to her fans "Well, well, as if life needed to get more interesting...we have a mandatory evacuation of our home due to the #Woolseyfire. We have gone to a hotel in Santa Monica where we will stay until we can return. Send love and strength to our amazing California firefighters. #safe."
MGM TV chairman Mark Burnett and his wife, former Touched by an Angel star Roma Downey, have evacuated their Malibu home. Downey posted a photo of billowing smoke as she left the area with their two dogs. The Los Angeles County Fire Department tweeted that the fire raging through the Santa Monica Mountains was headed to the ocean, where many stars have spent millions to live in paradise. Keep following RadarOnline.com for updates!
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