From Basketball great LeBron James to 'Terminator' star and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, stars and residents said on Twitter they had been forced to flee their homes as Los Angeles wildfire spreads.
LOS ANGELES - Wind-whipped flames chased thousands of residents from wealthy Los Angeles neighborhoods and threatened the city’s famed Getty Center museum on Monday, the latest outbreak in a wildfire season that has triggered mass evacuations and power outages across California.
“I’m not naive about shifting winds and shifting conditions so we are putting all the assets we have onto this fire,” said Newsom, who declared a statewide emergency last week. Officials at the Getty said the fire was burning north of the building, which was designed with thick stone walls to protect its world-renowned art treasures.
“Finally found a place to accommodate us!” he wrote a short time later on Twitter. “Crazy night man!” “This little thing is like a bad dream,” Crandell said in an interview with local radio station KPCC.
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