Chitchat Malibu Has Fallen! Fat Spanish Director Abandons His Dolls! Even Lady Gaga Run Road From Inferno!

[JohnTan]

LOS ANGELES (REUTERS, BLOOMBERG) - Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian, Alyssa Milano and Melissa Etheridge were among thousands fleeing from their homes in and around Malibu on Friday (Nov 9), as a fast-moving wildfire forced evacuations from the celebrity-packed area.

Celebrity website TMZ reported that the Malibu ridge home of Caitlyn Jenner, America’s best-known transgender person, was destroyed by the flames on Friday.

Her publicist could not confirm the status of her house, but told Reuters that Jenner was safe.

Lady Gaga posted videos on her Instagram account which said she was evacuating from her mansion. She added that she was "sending (her) prayers to everyone" and posted a photo of the thick smoke coming from the wildfire.

TMZ also reported that the fire had reached the grounds of the mansion in nearby Calabasas owned by Kardashian and husband Kanye West.

Kardashian posted on social media late on Thursday that she “had just one hour to pack up and evacuate our home.”

The TMZ report could not be confirmed but West tweeted on Friday that “our family is safe and close.”

The entire 12,000-strong population of Malibu, which stretches 43.5km along the Pacific Ocean in Southern California and up into the Santa Monica mountains, was placed under mandatory evacuation on Friday as the Woolsey fire exploded overnight and jumped a freeway, fire officials said.



Malibu and nearby Calabasas are home to hundreds of celebrities and entertainment executives attracted by its ocean views, rolling hills and large, isolated estates. Current and former residents include Barbra Streisand, Cher, Tom Hanks, Judd Apatow and Britney Spears.

Residents posted pleas on social media for help evacuating horses and other large animals from ranches, while long lines of traffic clogged the only coastal highway in and out of Malibu.

Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro tweeted that he had abandoned his vast “Bleak House” museum collection of fantasy and horror memorabilia, while singer Etheridge said she had moved into a hotel due to the fire.

“Evacuated last night. Bleak House and the collection may be endangered but the gift of life remains,” del Toro, director of Oscar best picture winner “The Shape of Water,” tweeted on Friday.

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[Tony Tan]

https://www.sammyboy.com/threads/ma...e-houses-bbq-california-good-bye-maga.261122/

Told you all what. MAGA fire!

BBQ Hollywood Tua Tua Kee.

 

[bart12]

God is bringing hell to LGBT & Liberal infested Malibu

 

[Leongsam]

Trump's revenge.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

California wildfire death toll rises to 48 as authorities continue search of ruined Paradise
Updated about 7 hours ago

PHOTO: A sign welcoming visitors to Paradise stands among ruins in the wake of devastating fires that killed 48 people (AP: John Locher )
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The death toll from California's deadliest wildfire has climbed to 48, after investigators found six more bodies in and around the devastated town of Paradise in the state's north.

Key points:

• The blaze incinerated over 7,000 homes and other buildings
• Worst-affected township is Paradise, which was largely destroyed
• At least 228 people remain missing

The latest tally of casualties from the blaze, dubbed the Camp Fire, was announced by Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea as forensic teams combed through a ghostly landscape strewn with ash and charred debris in Paradise, once home to 27,000 people.

The town, about 280 kilometres north of San Francisco, was overrun by flames last week.

The intensified effort to locate victims came on the sixth day of a blaze that incinerated more than 7,000 homes and other buildings.

PHOTO: Firefighters work to keep flames from spreading through the Shadowbrook apartment complex in Paradise, where the search for bodies continues (AP: Noah Berger )


PHOTO: Flames consume a home as the Camp Fire tears through Paradise, engulfing over 125,000 acres (AP: Noah Berger)


By Tuesday, the Camp Fire had blackened 50,500 hectares of drought-parched scrub, but crews had carved containment lines around nearly a third of the fire's expanding perimeter.

Diminished winds and higher humidity levels allowed crews to make headway against the flames, fire officials said.

PHOTO: Abandoned cars parked among the ruins of charred homes levelled by the blaze in Paradise, where a quarter of residents are over 65 (AP: Noah Berger )


PHOTO: Ghost town: Around 50,000 Paradise residents remain under evacuation orders (Reuters: Terray Sylvester)


Earlier Mr Honea said 228 people were listed as missing, and his office was working to determine the fate of nearly 1,300 people whose loved ones had requested "wellbeing checks".

More than 50,000 residents in the area remain under evacuation orders and 15,500 buildings are still listed as threatened by the blaze.

The news was less severe on the southern end of California's wildfire front, where a blaze called the Woolsey Fire has killed two people, destroyed over 400 buildings and displaced some 200,000 people in the mountains and foothills near the Malibu coast, west of Los Angeles.

PHOTO: Equine veterinarian Jesse Jellison carries an injured goose to a waiting vehicle in the aftermath of the deadliest blaze to hit California (Reuters: Stephen Lam )


PHOTO: One of at least 48: Yuba and Butte County Sheriff deputies carry a body bag containing a victim of the deadly Camp Fire (Reuters: Stephen Lam)


PHOTO: Paradise lost: Melted metal from a car destroyed by the Camp Fire drips along the concrete (Reuters: Stephen Lam )


Paradise had not seen significant rain for 211 days, and the town, on a ridge in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, was surrounded by a potential bonfire of dry or dead trees following a five-year drought that ended in 2017.

Authorities believe a spark on Camp Creek Road, to the west of Paradise, and El Diablo autumn winds gusting up to 80 kilometres per hour started the most destructive and deadly wildfires in California history.

Reuters/ABC

 

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California wildfires: Death toll rises to 65, searches underway for 630 missing people
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Three people wearing masks and protective gear search through ashes and burnt items inside the site of a destroyed house.
PHOTO Authorities are sifting through incinerated homes to search for missing people.
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The deadliest wildfires in California's history have killed at least 65 people and more than 600 are still missing as authorities continue to search for victims.

Key points
The list of those missing has doubled in a day from 297 to 630
About 50,000 people remain under evacuation orders
Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea expects list of missing to fluctuate as searches continue
At least 63 people have been confirmed dead following the Camp Fire, which erupted a week ago in the drought-parched Sierra foothills, 280 kilometres north of San Francisco.

Authorities attributed the high death toll in part to the staggering speed with which the wind-driven flames, fuelled by desiccated scrub and trees, raced through Paradise, a town of 27,000 residents.

Two more people were killed during the Woolsey Fire, which also destroyed more than 400 structures and displaced about 200,000 people in the mountains and foothills near the Malibu coast west of Los Angeles.

President Donald Trump, who has been criticized for politicising the fires by casting blame on forest mismanagement, plans to visit the fire zones on the weekend to meet displaced residents, the White House said.

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Nearly 9,000 homes and most of the Paradise was incinerated hours after the blaze erupted, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

PHOTO The Camp Fire incinerated most of Paradise.
Satellite image of a section of California, showing red fire and smoke streaming across a strip of green foothills.
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What was left was a ghostly, smoky expanse of empty lots covered in ash and strewn with twisted wreckage and debris.

PHOTO A cadaver dog searches for remains in Paradise.
Cadaver dog searches for remains in Paradise, California
REUTERS: TERRAY SYLVESTER
Thousands of buildings are still threatened by the blaze and as about 50,000 people remained under evacuation orders.

"This is one of the worst disasters I've seen in my career, hands down," Brock Long, head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said.

Governor of California Jerry Brown said: "It looks like a war zone. It is a war zone."

The revised list of 630 people whose whereabouts and fate remained unknown is more than double the 297 listed earlier in the day by the Butte County Sheriff's Office.

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Fires continue in California
Fires continue in California
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Sheriff Kory Honea asked relatives of the missing to provide DNA to compare against samples taken from recovered remains to help identify the dead.

But he acknowledged it was possible some of the missing might never be found.

The cause of the fires is still under investigation.

Two electric utilities companies have said they had problems with equipment close to where the blazes broke out at around the time they were reported.

PHOTO The blaze has almost completely razed the California town of Paradise, which was home to 27,000 people.
Two destroyed Dodge trucks in Paradise, California
REUTERS: TERRAY SYLVESTER
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