LA fires halt production, awards.
Under siege, citizens of Los Angeles and Hollywood flee their homes and halt its much-loved industry.
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Devastating wildfires continue to rage across Los Angeles.
At the time of copy, 5 people have died and nearly 2000 structures have been destroyed. (Update: now 7 lives lost).
More than 130,000 people have now been ordered to evacuate.
The Sunset fire has descended on Hollywood, threatening landmarks such as Hollywood Boulevard and the Walk of Fame. Sunset Boulevard, the famous thoroughfare in Los Angeles, has been reduced to ruins by the Palisades fire, which has so far scorched 27,000 acres -equivalent to nearly 20,000 football fields. On the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and La Brea Avenue, about a 10-minute walk from sites like the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the TCL Chinese Theater, people watched a helicopter drop water on the fast-moving Sunset fire.
The homes of numerous stars have been destroyed, including Billy Crystal, Paris Hilton, Mandy Moore, Eugene Levy, Anna Faris, Cary Elwes, Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag, James Woods, Diane Warren, Cameron Mathison and Ricki Lake.
- Production paused:
- Only Murders in the Building,Â
- Doctor OdysseyÂ
- Grey’s AnatomyÂ
- NCISÂ
- NCIS Origins
- Hacks
- Happy’s PlaceÂ
- LootÂ
- Suits LAÂ
- TedÂ
- FalloutÂ
- Abbott ElementaryÂ
- All AmericanÂ
- The PittÂ
- George & Mandy’s First MarriageÂ
- Jimmy Kimmel Live
- After Midnight
- Cancelled premieres / red carpets in Hollywood: The Pitt, Unstoppable, Back in Action, Shifting Gears , Better Man, The Last Showgirl, Wolf Man,Â
- Academy Awards is extending its voting period and moving nominations annoucement to January 19
- The Writers Guild Awards is postponing nominations to Monday, January 13.
- Critics Choice Awards, set to take place this Sunday in Santa Monica, are postponed to January 26.
- Â SAG Awards nominations cancelled a live announcement and uploaded nominations online.
- Roughly ten cinemas closed in Los Angeles, the nation’s No. 1 box office capital.
- An episode of Fire Country was cancelled from broadcast but Chicago Fire proceeded.
- American Cinematheque has postponed its scheduled Tribute to the Crafts awards show
- Closed: Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal CityWalk, Magic Mountain amusement park.
LA based journalist and critic Michael Idato, currently in Australia, wrote in the Sydney Morning Herald, “Watching the Palisades fire burn a deep scar across the city I love so much is discomforting. Even then, I am left with a sense that whatever happened, it was not happening in my street. But then came the inevitable text: Runyon Canyon, where I live, was burning, and an evacuation order was imminent.
“This, perhaps, is the darkest hour. Where paralysis and fear take over. Where I quickly list the things that matter – my passport, the personal possessions I travel with – to make sure they are safe. And whether my friends, who are evacuating as I write this, will stay out of harm’s way.
“And the realisation that I am on the other side of the world and unable to change the outcome, whatever it may be.”
Source: NY Times, Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, Telegraph
7 Responses
Saw an amazing interview with a resident the other night on the news… It was mainly about people leaving their cars in places that were blocking fire engines, etc… Interviewer was talking to the resident, who was saying how bad it was that people were leaving their cars there. Then at the end of the interview, the reporter asked the guy (who was wearing a hat & sunglasses) his name and he answered “Steve Guttenberg”. “Maaaaahoneeeeeey”!
Yes Guttenberg was asking people to leave their keys in cars so they could be moved for firefighters to get through.
Down here when the bushfires can get devastating, there’s usually bushfire appeals, celebrities asking the public for donations to help those who lost their homes in the bushfires. It’d be the strangest bushfire appeal ever where celebrities are asking for money to help those who lost their homes in those bushfires (if you can afford a home in Hollywood, you’re a multi-millionaire)
You’ll have to watch Mike Amor’s touching personal anecdote on HSV7 News tonight and the article he wrote for 7News on their site RE: his love affair with LA and particularly the Hollywood hills region hit. An unbelievable natural disaster, which we in Australia are all too familiar with. Thoughts with everyone affected.
Is Bold and the beautiful and General Hospital having a production break as well because of the Wildfires David?
Seeing images and videos of these fires, they are both horrifying and devastating at the same time – here’s hoping these fires can be contained ASAP!
Appreciate you sharing David. The map helped put it in context.
I always thoughts Greys Anatomy was filmed in Seattle! After 21 years of watching I realise now it’s actually filmed in LA!