Big Hollywood names have started to turn on Los Angeles’ Democratic leadership, including Mayor Karen Bass, over their botched response to the wildfires raging across the ritzy, celeb-filled Pacific Palisades and surrounding areas.
Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar led the charge, criticizing the Democratic leadership on Instagram for failing to direct the tens of thousands of Southern California residents trying to flee as the fires burned un-contained Wednesday.
“City of LA you want everyone to evacuate yet you have complete gridlock and not one traffic cop on the roads helping,” Gellar wrote, tagging Bass and the city of Los Angeles.
The Palisades Fire has been ravaging the celebrity-dotted neighborhood since Tuesday, and has burned a horrifying 17,234 acres (27 square miles) over the past 36 hours.
Actor James Woods, who lost his home in the Palisades Fire, vented on X that the wildfires weren’t caused by “climate change” but “liberal idiots like Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass.”
“One doesn’t understand the first thing about fire management and the other can’t fill the water reservoirs,” he added.
In a separate post Woods wrote, “I took this last night from our beautiful little home in the Palisades. Now all the fire alarms are going off at once remotely. It tests your soul, losing everything at once, I must say.”
Actress Sara Foster also took to X to lament how Los Angeles residents pay exorbitant taxes but the state was still completely unprepared to take on such massive wildfires.
“Our fire hydrants were empty. Our vegetation was overgrown, brush not cleared. Our reservoirs were emptied by our governor because tribal leaders wanted to save fish. Our fire department budget was cut by our mayor. But thank god drug addicts are getting their drug kits,” she wrote.
The politically-active actress, who is the daughter of music mogul David Foster, called on Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom to resign, writing, “your far left policies have ruined our state. And also our party.”
Former “Dancing with the Stars” professional dancer Valentin Chmerkovskiy also vented his frustrations over the state’s lack of preparedness, writing on social media Wednesday, “5th largest economy on the planet. Firefighters didn’t have enough water pressure to do their jobs?! Are you joking me?! The taxes we pay for 3rd world infrastructure is unbelievable?! Come on.”
While some celebrities pointed fingers as the wildfires roared on into Thursday, others who lost their homes or were forced to evacuate shared more heartbroken reactions.
Celebrities including Paris Hilton, Billy Crystal and Anthony Hopkins, shared that they lost their homes in the devastating fires. Hilton took to social media to share that she watched her beachfront Malibu home burn down on television, while Crystal and his wife, Janice, shared that their home of 45 years had burned down.
Reality stars Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt shared that they also lost their home due to the blaze, with Pratt later noting on Instagram that the “one positive sign” of the fire was that his son’s bed “burned in the shape of a heart.”
Hollywood stars and thousands of everyday California residents were forced to evacuate this week as a series of fires ravaged Los Angeles, with devastating Santa Ana wind gusts topping 100 miles per hour in the Palisades, Eaton and surrounding regions.
By Thursday morning, five fires — three of which were completely un-contained — were burning nearly 30,000 acres (47 square miles) in Los Angeles County.
The Palisades Fire alone has burned more than 17,000 acres and forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate.
At least five people have died from the raging wildfires, officials said.
With Post wires.
