Please allow me to interject my feelings about Mother Nature

Jesus Christ.

For those who are unfamiliar, this is absolutely the heart of Hollywood.

This is horrifying.

 

Initial Twitter chatter indicates that they did. Somehow.

 

Rockford’s trailer survived I hope.

 

I can't even imagine what the price tag will be on this fire given the houses and real estate in those areas. I might be a little less surprised if something like this happened in Sept. or Oct. - but January?

 

I'm thinking that dark area just south of the fire is Brentwood CC.

 

Close. It's Riviera CC. Brentwood is just past the edge of the window.

 

Also among the homes apparently destroyed, one belonging to Steve Kerr's mom, 90.

 

I can see a telethon coming where the Hollywood elite raise money for themselves.
Seriously, yes, obviously most of those who have lost their homes were fairly wealthy just to live there, and with many of them being famous and all, sure maybe they have other homes to stay in - but it doesn't diminish the losses in my eyes. As someone who experienced losing their residence in a fire, it really sucks. Your life is turned upside down for months dealing with insurance, getting resettled, and never really feeling resettled. You lose treasured things, irreplaceable things. But you also realize, they are just "things." I was fortunate nobody was hurt in my incident.

 

Lisa Nehus Saxon, the former baseball writer who I referred to earlier, posted on Facebook that her home in the Palisades is OK, but her classroom at Palihi was destroyed. She said she was very gratified that a lot of her students checked in on her to make sure the was safe. Her husband is AP photographer Reed Saxon.

 

Another tragedy for her. So sad.