Jamie Lee Curtis tried to maintain it collectively as she spoke of the devastating wildfires in her Los Angeles neighborhood in an look on “The Tonight Present.”
“I’m actually nearly to cry, largely due to that lovely welcome,” she advised host Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday. “As you understand, the place I reside is on fireplace proper now. Actually, all the metropolis of the Pacific Palisades is burning.”
“I flew right here final evening. I used to be on a aircraft, began getting texts, and it’s fucking gnarly, you guys,” she mentioned. “It’s only a disaster in Southern California.”
“The whole lot,” she added. “The market I store in, the faculties my youngsters go to, associates — many, many, many, many associates now — have misplaced their properties. So it’s, it’s a extremely terrible scenario.”
She mentioned she meant to return house “very first thing tomorrow” to be with household and help associates, and inspired viewers to help the American Crimson Cross and do “no matter you are able to do” to assist, together with giving blood and donating to animal shelters.
She additionally reminded individuals throughout the nation to all the time have an evacuation package ready.
“Have an emergency package with prescription glasses, medicines, pet food, child components, all of the belongings you want if you need to flee,” she mentioned.
In an Instagram put up afterward, she additionally urged that folks “laminate a card with all the necessary phone numbers as a result of when all the know-how shuts down and there’s no electrical energy within the panic individuals overlook find out how to attain one another.”
She mentioned in earlier posts that “my group and presumably my house is on fireplace” however that her household is secure.
“It’s a terrifying scenario and I’m grateful to the firefighters and all the good Samaritans who’re serving to individuals get out of the best way of the blaze,” she mentioned.
A number of fires in Los Angeles County have destroyed lots of of properties, together with these of quite a few celebrities, and compelled tens of 1000’s of individuals to evacuate. 5 individuals have died. The Palisades fireplace has gutted the prosperous Pacific Palisades neighborhood.
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