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US Millionaire Slammed For “Tone-Deaf” Plea For “Private Firefighters” To Save Mansion Amid Palisades Wildfire

admin — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 14:37:58 +0000

A Los Angeles millionaire CEO has sparked outrage for a ‘tone-deaf’ post asking for assistance from ‘private firefighters’ to protect his Pacific Palisades mansion while emergency services worked to help residents as the area was engulfed by flames. Keith Wasserman, co-founder of real estate investment firm Gelt Venture Partners, took to X, pleading for help as a massive wildfire ravaged the hillside.

He wrote on X, “Does anyone have access to private firefighters to protect our home in Pacific Palisades? Need to act fast here. All neighbours houses burning. Will pay any amount. Thank you.”

The post, which garnered over a million views before being deleted, was met with immediate and strong backlash.

The disconnect is jaw dropping.

Just wow. pic.twitter.com/krubaIuACO

— Spitfire (@DogRightGirl) January 8, 2025

Commenting on the post, a user wrote, “Incredible Nerve. His family is evacuated and he’s trying to hire private firefighters to risk their lives to save a home he most certainly has insured. Incredibly tone deaf.”

Another user commented, “If you find yourself tweeting for private firefighters to protect your property, you should probably question what you have become as a human being.”

The third user wrote, “So you’re suggesting that potentially lifesaving resources (even if ‘private’) should be diverted to save your house because you’re rich while tens of thousands of people try to evacuate?”

A crescent of flame squeezed Los Angeles in a huge pincer visible from space. More than 100,000 people were ordered to evacuate as dry, hurricane-force winds hindered firefighting operations and spread the flames. At least five people have been killed since the fires erupted on Tuesday.

The homes of movie stars and celebrities were among those consumed by flames, which tore through some of the world’s most lavish real estate and above showbiz landmarks instantly recognisable around the world, Reuters reported.

“This firestorm is the big one,” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass told a press conference after rushing back to the city, cutting short an official trip to Ghana.

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In pictures | Los Angeles wildfires and harrowing escapes

admin — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 07:58:47 +0000

Fierce wildfires are raging in the Los Angeles area, fuelled by powerful Santa Ana winds, sending residents fleeing from burning homes through flames, ferocious winds and towering clouds of smoke.

Thousands of people fled wildfires in the Los Angeles area that turned picturesque neighbourhoods into the smoldering wasteland, with chimneys or wrought-iron staircases about all that remained of homes.

Driven by powerful Santa Ana winds, the flames obliterated more than 1,000 structures, scorched landmarks, made famous by Hollywood, and killed at least five people. One of the fires was the most destructive in the modern history of the city of Los Angeles.

Here is the pictorial display of how the deadly wildfires blazed, ripping apart the neighbourhoods.

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Pedestrians help a firefighter stretch a hose, as an apartment building burns, on January 8, 2025, in the Altadena section of Pasadena, California.

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Firefighters in action to protect a structure as the Eaton Fire advances, on January 8, 2025 in Altadena.

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A firefighter battles to put off the Eaton Fire that blazes a car, on January 8, 2025 in Altadena, California.

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A man walks past a fire-ravaged business area after the Eaton Fire swept through the place, on January 8, 2025 in Altadena, California.

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Flames are seen through a window of a burning building, as powerful winds fuelling devastating wildfires, in the Los Angeles area, force people to evacuate, at the Eaton Fire in Altadena, California, U.S., on January 8, 2025.

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A firefighter battles the Eaton Fire, on January 8, 2025 in Altadena, California.

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Damaged structures are seen during the Eaton fire, in Altadena, California, on January 8, 2025.

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Firefighters work from a deck as the Palisades Fire burns a beachfront property on January 8, 2025 in Malibu, California.

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A motorist drives past a destroyed structure during the Eaton fire in Altadena, California, on January 8, 2025.

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A view of the destroyed entrance of the housing development area, owing to the wildfire, on January 8, 2025.

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Residents embrace themselves outside a burning property, as the Eaton Fire swept through the area, on January 8, 2025 in Altadena, California.

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The Eaton Fire burns a Bank Of America branch, on January 8, 2025 in Altadena, California.

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A man cuts down bushes as structures are burning owing to wildfire in Altadena, California.

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The Palisades Fire burns houses in the hill next to the Getty Villa, on January 8, 2025 in Pacific Palisades, California.

Published – January 09, 2025 01:28 pm IST

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Palisades wildfire forces thousands to flee: In Pictures

admin — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 11:42:22 +0000

More than 30,000 people evacuated their homes as a wildfire ripped through an upscale coastal area of Los Angeles on Tuesday (January 7, 2025) and into Wednesday (January 8, 2025), with Hollywood celebrities among those fleeing by car and on foot as flames engulfed homes and set hillsides ablaze. Two other fires inland were also spreading fast, officials said.

Numerous buildings were destroyed and nearly 3,000 acres (1,200 hectares) burned in the Pacific Palisades area between the beach towns of Santa Monica and Malibu, officials said. Roads were jammed with people fleeing the inferno, some abandoning their cars as flames licked the edges, and plumes of smoke and flames rose in the night sky over Los Angeles and its suburbs.

Firefighters has not contained the blaze by the early hours and Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency.

(With inputs from agencies)

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A U.S flag flies as fire engulfs a structure while the Palisades Fire burns during a windstorm on the west side of Los Angeles, California, U.S. on January 7, 2025.

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Jerome Krausse pushes his mother-in-law in a shopping cart as they evacuate from their home in the Pacific Palisades after a wildfire swept through their neighborhood in Santa Monica, Calif., on January 7, 2025.

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The Palisades Fire burns during a windstorm on the west side of Los Angeles, California, U.S. on January 7, 2025.

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A firefighter jumps over a fence while fighting the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, on January 7, 2025.

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The Eaton Fire burns the AltaMed Medical building on January 8, 2025 in Altadena, California

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People flee from the advancing Palisades Fire, by car and on foot, in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles on January 7, 2025.

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A firefighter is silhouetted in front of a burning structure as the Palisades Fire sweeps through in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, on January 7, 2025.

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A surfer takes off on a wave in Santa Monica, Calif., during sunset under a blackened sky from the Palisades fire in the Pacific Palisades on on January 7, 2025.

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A firefighter works to extinguish flames as the Eaton Fire burns in Pasadena, California, U.S. on January 8, 2025.

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Water is dropped on the advancing Palisades Fire by helicopter in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, on January 7, 2025.

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Firefighters work to extinguish flames as the Eaton Fire burns in Pasadena, California, U.S. on January 8, 2025.

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Residents of a senior center are evacuated as the Eaton Fire approaches on January 7, 2025, in Altadena, California

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Motorists drives past the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, on January 7, 2025.

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Residents of a senior center are evacuated as the Eaton Fire approaches on January 7, 2025 in Altadena, California

Published – January 08, 2025 05:12 pm IST

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