by admin | May 25, 2021 | World
San Francisco : Model Ireland Bladwin has claimed the police accused her of “looting” when she tried to get back to her house in Malibu amidst the raging California wildfire.
Baldwin, daughter of actors Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, took to Twitter to share the incident among her social media followers. She alleged that she wasn’t allowed to enter her home as she did not have the correct address on her identification card, according to hollywoodreporter.com.
“Yesterday I spent all day long trying to get back to my place in Malibu to gather a couple of my things before the winds were expected to pick back up. An officer at a back way entrance to one of the main canyons that take you over to Malibu stopped us and refused to let us in because I don’t have my Malibu address on my ID.
“Not only was he a d**k, but he had zero compassion and he literally accused us of being looters and threatened us that we were going to be arrested if we kept giving him trouble,” she tweeted.
The 23-year also revealed that her mother Kim and her partner lost their home in the massive fire, which also destroyed the houses of celebrities like Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke.
“So many friends and friends and family of friends are losing everything they own in these fires. My mom and her partner lost their Malibu home in the Woolsey Fire and thankfully, they are both safe,” Baldwin added.
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by admin | May 25, 2021 | World
Los Angeles : More evacuations were ordered in southern California as a wildfire that has been burning since December 4 raged on.
Mandatory evacuation orders were issued for more parts of Santa Barbara and Ventura counties as the fire continued to burn, Efe news agency reported.
“Very strong north winds” and dry conditions have allowed the fire to increase “significantly” and make an “aggressive push” south, according to an incident report published by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CALFIRE) on Saturday evening.
The blaze, called the Thomas Fire, has burned over 267,000 acres (108,000 hectares), making it the third-largest in the state’s history.
Only 40 per cent contained on Saturday evening, it was moving rapidly and now took aim at the hills above Montecito, known for its luxury resorts and mansions of celebrities.
Kelly Hoover, Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s spokeswoman, said authorities dispatched hundreds of crews to Montecito, checking the communities door to door and ordering residents to leave the evacuation zone, Xinhua reported.
She warned that the situation was really dangerous for their lives since the Santa Ana winds mixed with the Sundowner, a northerly offshore wind in Santa Barbara.
On Thursday, a 32-year-old firefighter died on duty near the town of Fillmore. There have been no civilian casualties reported.
Over 750 family homes have been destroyed, as well as two apartment complexes and two mixed commercial and residential buildings. Another 18,000 structures were under threat.
Official estimates have placed the total cost of the fire at over $110 million so far.
Authorities do not expect the blaze to be fully contained until January 7, 2018.
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