LA fires film stars homes

[Red carp]

The BBC main news Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Rihanna, Tom Hanks, Paris Hilton etc homes have gone up in flames in LA personally I don’t give a flying #### about these people 🤮🤮🤮 what about the normal people that have lost everything.

Edited 8 hours ago by Red carp

[Newbie to this]

Arson effects everyone in the path of the fire.

Edited 7 hours ago by Newbie to this

[Dave-G]

I read in the SUN today (wifey buys it) that Tom Hanks home din't get touched but some nearby homes did. 

I'm just amazed at how they aren't protected with a decent firebreak - but at the same time guess the local mayor is too woke to allow trees to be felled as a safety precaution.

Stone houses should be affordable to the super rich.

[Cosmicblue]

One feels for the people involved of course but I'm also not that surprised.

Here in Europe we build houses with brick and block, over in the US there is a preference to build houses using wood, even the roofing tiles are 'shakes', rather than some kind of stone/cement tile as we would have here they are using timber or composite products and thus extremely vulnerable to fire.

Even the houses that look like they are made of something more solid are just cement rendered.

Was inevitable, sooner or later.

  

Edited 7 hours ago by Cosmicblue

[Mice!]

57 minutes ago, Red carp said:

The BBC main news Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Rihanna, Tom Hanks, Paris Hilton etc homes have gone up in flames in LA personally I don’t give a flying #### about these people 🤮🤮🤮 what about the normal people that have lost everything.

It's in the papers as well, people know the celebrities that's why it's been pointed out, they've still lost whatever was in their houses, 10,000 homes it was saying. 

6 minutes ago, Dave-G said:

I read in the SUN today (wifey buys it) that Tom Hanks home din't get touched but some nearby homes did. 

I'm just amazed at how they aren't protected with a decent firebreak - but at the same time guess the local mayor is too woke to allow trees to be felled as a safety precaution.

Stone houses should be affordable to the super rich.

I said this about fire breaks, then I watched the news and saw the way the wind eas driving the flames, scary stuff.

Then there's a house on the beach front made from concrete untouched with everything around it burned down 😳

[JohnfromUK]

Doesn't matter if you are rich, poor, famous, or just Joe Public - I have great sympathy with anyone whom loses their home, personal possessions, mementoes, memories, photographs etc.  Its a horrible thing to happen to anyone.

[ditchman]

The sussexes will chuffed to **** as all the luvies will be staying at Monteceto..........most of these luvies have more that 3 houses anyway...poor them

[Scully]

39 minutes ago, JohnfromUK said:

Doesn't matter if you are rich, poor, famous, or just Joe Public - I have great sympathy with anyone whom loses their home, personal possessions, mementoes, memories, photographs etc.  Its a horrible thing to happen to anyone.

This. 👆

[Red carp]

2 hours ago, JohnfromUK said:

Doesn't matter if you are rich, poor, famous, or just Joe Public - I have great sympathy with anyone whom loses their home, personal possessions, mementoes, memories, photographs etc.  Its a horrible thing to happen to anyone.

Totally agree but 99% of people have only one home, not just ONE multi million home in LA & countless other homes across the world.

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[shaun4860]

And just when you think it couldn’t get any worse than your house burning down.

The Sussex’s turn up and offer sympathy 🤦🏻‍♂️