Steve Guttenberg’s Pacific Palisades home narrowly avoided igniting this week as the initial Los Angeles wildfire, which stared Tuesday, tore through his neighborhood.
The still-burning inferno leveled many celebrity mansions in the area, including properties belonging to Anna Faris, Heidi Montag, Paris Hilton, and Ricki Lake.
Guttenberg’s home is still standing despite the singed wreckage surrounding it.
‘Just this morning, I woke up and I was really conscious of my mental state and my mental health, because the last three days, I’ve seen so much tragedy,’ the 66-year-old actor told the Associated Press on Friday.
‘It’s like when someone dies suddenly,’ he described of the shock. ‘It’s like when someone gets hit by a car. You never expect that to happen. That’s how shocking it was.’
‘There’s really a lot of pain going on right now. I’m doing whatever I can to help alleviate it,’ the star said of how he’s showing up for his community.
Steve Guttenberg’s Pacific Palisades home narrowly avoided igniting this week as the initial Los Angeles wildfire, which stared Tuesday, tore through his neighborhood
Guttenberg’s home is still standing despite the singed wreckage surrounding it, as per a photo obtained by DailyMail.com on Saturday
Steve was among the first to provide assistance earlier this week as he helped move abandoned cars out of fire trucks’ pathway.
He told KTLA 5’s Gene Kang: ‘What’s happening is people take their keys with them as if they’re in a parking lot. This is not a parking lot. We really need people to move their cars.
‘If you leave your car behind, leave the key in there so a guy like me can move your car so that these fire trucks can get up there.’
Guttenberg explained that he had friends who were struggling to evacuate due to the traffic jam on Palisades Drive as he stressed: ‘It’s really, really important.
‘There are people stuck up there. So we’re trying to clear Palisades Dr. and I’m walking up there as far as I can moving cars.’
Tom Hanks’ multimillion-dollar cliffside home also evaded the flames caused by strong winds.
Bill Hader’s home also remarkably survived the devastating Los Angeles fires while his neighbors were not as fortunate.
Guttenberg’s neighborhood pictured before the fires that have leveled many celebrity mansions in the area, including properties belonging to Anna Faris, Heidi Montag, Paris Hilton, and Ricki Lake
Steve was among the first to provide assistance earlier this week as he helped move abandoned cars out of fire trucks’ pathway. He instead opted to assist by moving cars in order to make room for incoming fire trucks
Authorities issued an ‘immediate’ evacuation order for Pacific Palisades earlier this week, urging residents to ‘LEAVE NOW’
Among the A-list stars whose homes have been reduced to ash are Jhene Aiko, Anthony Hopkins, and Miles Teller.
Others, like Kim Kardashian and her famous family members, have been ordered to evacuate their residences.
The devastation in Southern California began unfolding on Tuesday morning when a combination of heavy wind and lack of rain created the perfect condition for a brush fire in the Pacific Palisades.
The flames quickly spread and as of Saturday, over 21,317 acres of land have been scorched in the Palisades fire alone, with firefighters still working around the clock to contain the flames there and at other locations throughout LA.
