Steve Guttenberg’s home in the Pacific Palisades narrowly avoided catching fire this week as Los Angeles’ first wildfire, which raged on Tuesday, tore through his neighborhood.
The still-burning inferno leveled many famous mansions in the area, including properties owned by Anna Faris, Heidi Montag, Paris Hilton and Ricki Lake.
Guttenberg’s house still stands, despite the scorched wreckage surrounding it.
“This morning I woke up and I was really aware of my mental state and my mental health because I’ve seen so many tragedies in the last three days,” the 66-year-old actor told the newspaper. Associate Press on Friday.
“It’s like someone dying suddenly,” he said, describing the shock. ‘It’s like when someone gets hit by a car. You never expect that to happen. It was that shocking.”
‘There is really a lot of pain at the moment. I’m doing what I can to help alleviate it,” the star said of how he stands up for his community.
Steve Guttenberg’s Pacific Palisades home narrowly avoided catching fire this week as Los Angeles’ first wildfire, which raged on Tuesday, tore through his neighborhood
Guttenberg’s home is still standing despite the scorched wreckage surrounding it, as evidenced by a photo obtained by DailyMail.com on Saturday.
Steve was one of the first to provide assistance earlier this week when he helped move abandoned cars out of the path of fire trucks.
He told it KTL 5‘ Gene Kang: ‘What happens is that people take their keys with them as if they were in a parking lot. This is not a parking lot. We really need people moving their cars.
“If you leave your car, leave the key in there so someone like me can move your car so the fire trucks can get there.”
Guttenberg explained that he had friends who had difficulty evacuating due to the traffic jam on Palisades Drive, emphasizing, “It’s really, really important.
‘There are people stuck there. So we try Palisades Dr. to clear it and I walk there as far as I can to move cars.’
Tom Hanks’ multimillion-dollar clifftop home also dodged flames caused by high winds.
Bill Hader’s home also remarkably survived the devastating fires in Los Angeles, while his neighbors were not so lucky.
The Guttenberg neighborhood, pictured before the fires that razed many famous mansions in the area, including properties owned by Anna Faris, Heidi Montag, Paris Hilton and Ricki Lake
Steve was one of the first to provide assistance earlier this week when he helped move abandoned cars out of the path of fire trucks. Instead, he chose to help by moving cars 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 were reduced to ashes are Jhene Aiko, Anthony Hopkins and Miles Teller.
Others, like Kim Kardashian and her famous family members, have been ordered to evacuate their homes.
The devastation in Southern California began to unfold Tuesday morning when a combination of heavy winds and lack of rain created the perfect conditions for a wildfire in the Pacific Palisades.
The flames spread quickly and as of Saturday, the Palisades fire alone has scorched more than 21,317 acres of land, with firefighters still working around the clock to contain the flames there and at other locations in LA.