Sarah Michelle Gellar reprimanded Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Tuesday as the Palisades fire raged Los Angeles.
“City of Los Angeles, you want to evacuate everyone but you have a complete gridlock and not a single traffic cop on the roads helping,” Gellar wrote on Instagram Stories with tags on the official social media accounts of the City of Los Angeles and Bass.
The Palisades Fire, caused by strong Santa Ana winds, started in the Santa Monica Mountains late Tuesday morning and quickly engulfed 200 acres within an hour, rising to nearly 3,000 acres by sunset. Fox Weather reported.
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Sarah Michelle Gellar was one of many who criticized Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass as Los Angeles neighborhoods caught fire. (Getty Images)
former “Dancing with the Stars” Professional dancer Valentin Chmerkovskiy aired his complaints on social media on Wednesday, writing: “Fifth largest economy on the planet. Firefighters didn't have enough water pressure to do their jobs?! Are you kidding me?! The taxes we pay for the world's infrastructure The third one is unbelievable?!
Sarah Foster Written on XWe pay the highest taxes in California. Our fire hydrants were empty. Our plants were overgrown, and the brush had not been cleaned. Our governor emptied our tanks because the tribal leaders wanted to save the fish. Our fire department budget has been cut by the mayor. But thank God drug addicts get their own drug combinations. @MayorOfLA @gavinnewsom resignation. Your far-left policies have destroyed our country. And so is our party.”
Celebrity fitness trainer Jillian Michaels recalled losing her home in 2018 Woolsey Fire When she took to the X to criticize California's leadership.
“The fifth largest economy on the planet. The firefighters didn't have enough water pressure to do their jobs?! Are you kidding me?! The taxes we pay for third world infrastructure are unbelievable?!”
“Looks like the mayor is in Ghana,” she wrote. “Apparently the fire department's budget was cut by 17 million. Someone made the decision not to refill some tanks – and now some fire hydrants have run dry. Driving in California is beyond negligent. This is completely unacceptable.”
Michaels continued in another post: “California Governor @GavinNewsom issued a press release admitting they knew about the crazy fire danger last Sunday because he was proposing fire trucks. However, he called in the National Guard a few hours ago. Pacific Ocean ran out of water from the barriers in “It's three in the morning, and I'm very upset for my family who stayed there. It's pure incompetence and poor prioritization.”
The Palisades Fire destroyed a neighborhood amid high winds in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damien Dovarganes)
Sarah Michelle Gellar and professional dancer Valentin Chmerkovskiy have criticized the leadership's response to the Los Angeles fires. (Instagram)
James Woods, who lost his home Tuesday in the Palisades fire, wrote on X that the fire was not caused by “climate change” but by “liberal idiots like Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass.”
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He added: “One of them does not understand the first thing about fire management and the other cannot fill water tanks.” Woods posted throughout the day as he prepared to evacuate his home, then later gave fans a sad update that he had lost his home in Pacific Palisades.
Steve Guttenberg set out to help firefighters and move 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 just after 11 a.m. near the southeast side of Palisades Drive. Evacuation orders were issued as the fire expanded to about 200 acres.
Vehicles are left on the road after passengers got stuck in traffic during the evacuation. (Getty Images)
Guttenberg – known for his roles in “Police Academy” and “Three Men and a Baby” – urged people who were leaving their cars behind during the evacuation to also leave their keys so crews could access the fire.
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“What people are doing is they're abandoning their cars, and this is a crisis, and they're not leaving their keys in their cars,” Guttenberg told Fox News Digital. “What happens is the fire trucks can't get down the street because they have all these abandoned cars without the ability to move them. So what I've been doing is helping move the cars and putting them on the hill and making way for the fire department.”
“I just wanted to see what I could do to help some of my neighbors, but it's a ghost town.”
Guttenberg noted that the fire was “the largest fire we've ever seen in the Palisades area. It's massive.”
“We've had small fires, but this is definitely the largest, and it's gotten out of control in certain areas,” he said. “I've been able to survive here, like a pocket where there's no fire. So everyone's safe, and I just wanted to see what I could 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 that.”
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Cars are pictured in the aftermath of the Pacific Palisades inferno on January 7, 2025. (KTV)
Reality TV star Spencer Pratt and his wife Heidi Montag have lost their home Palisades fireThey confirmed this on their Snapchat accounts on Tuesday. In a series of videos, “The Hills” star. It showed how quickly the fire moved up the hill toward their property.
“Well, that doesn't look good,” Pratt said as he photographed the fire on the mountain behind their home. “First time I saw the fire coming. All right, man. All right, I'll go pack, I guess.”
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He later posted a video from his car saying he was watching their house burn on their security cameras. Pratt shared a photo of his child's room, saying it was burned into the shape of a heart.
Air tanker crashes on Palisades Fire. (Brian Van Der Brug/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Spencer Pratt shared photos from inside his home, captured by security cameras. (Spencer Pratt Snapchat)
Chris Pratt offered prayers for evacuees and those who were unable to leave the fires. (Roden Eckenroth/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images)
Chris Pratt It was posted on X and he asked people to join him in praying for “the brave firefighters who sacrifice so much to save our homes and our city.”
“Jesus protects the lives of those fighting the fire and the lives of those who were unable to evacuate,” he wrote.
Former Food Network personality Sandra Lee shared a collection of photos from around Malibu on Tuesday before revealing on Wednesday morning that she had lost her home.
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“Good morning, thank you for all your well wishes. I'm in a hotel. I don't have a home anymore, my house is gone. It's literally gone,” she said. “I've been crying all night. Thank God everyone is okay.
“I don't know what to say, I don't know how to break this down, I don't know what to do… all my stuff, for the last five years of my life. So, the only thing I can do is go to work, and I'll go to work today like I go to work every One day, I think I'll rebuild it.
