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Hollywood actress Elizabeth Chambers claims the government didn’t do enough at the time LA fires.
During an interview with Fox News Digital, Chambers, 42, was asked if she believed city officials had done everything they could to stop the fires in Los Angeles.
“I think it was a disaster,” she said. “I don’t think anyone was ready. I think it’s on a scale that no one expected.”
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Elizabeth Chambers told Fox News Digital what she grabbed when she and her children had to evacuate during the fires in Los Angeles. (Philip Faraon/Getty Images for Vanity Fair)
Chambers shared her feelings about the billionaire developer and former Los Angeles mayoral candidate Rick Caruso.
“And then Caruso saved the village of Palisades. … You may or may not be involved in politics. But, after all, he had as much time as everyone else to prepare. … I mean, it’s untouched. It’s eerily pristine.”
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“The music is still playing in Palisades Village like it’s Disneyland and all around is destruction. So, do I think the steps were taken appropriately and quickly enough? Absolutely not.”
Caruso, who ran unsuccessfully against Karen Bass for mayor in 2022, previously said the lack of water when the Palisades fire reduced multimillion-dollar properties to ashes represented “absolute mismanagement on the part of the city.”
Rick Caruso blamed the lack of water in the Palisades. (Getty Images)
“There is no water in the Palisades. Water does not flow from fire hydrants. This is absolute mismanagement on the part of the city. It’s not the firefighters’ fault, it’s the city’s fault,” Caruso said. Fox11 Los Angeles when fires raged.
Deadly fires broke out in the Los Angeles area on January 7, forcing tens of thousands of residents to flee for safety as their homes and businesses were destroyed. Officials said on Thursday that more than 30 people remained missing, with two additional deaths bringing the death toll to 27.
“So I think the steps were taken appropriately and quickly enough? Absolutely not.”
Firefighters watch as a helicopter drops water on the Palisades Fire in Mandeville Canyon in Los Angeles on January 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Chambers described in detail the moment she had to evacuate, when she immediately packed her and her children’s personal belongings.
“I took our passports. I took our birth certificates. I took pictures just like that … there were old family photos around the house,” she explained to Fox News Digital. “I just packed for a couple of nights.”
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Chambers said that when she evacuated, she “took our passports. I took birth certificates. I took a photo just like that … there were around the house … old family photos.” (Morgan Lieberman/FilmMagic/Getty Images)
The TV presenter has two children from her ex-husband, armie hammer, and shared how she explained the tragic fires in California to her young children, daughter Harper, 10, and son Ford, 7.
“I think that in any case of parenting, you have to be the captain of the plane. … When the captain of the plane panics, so do the passengers. And that’s just how I approach raising children,” she told Fox News Digital.
Chambers has two children with ex-husband Armie Hammer, daughter Harper, 10, and son Ford, 7. (Paul Bruinage/Patrick McMullan)
“But if the pilot of the plane doesn’t panic and says everything is fine and you know you’re about to crash, you don’t trust the pilot either. So, you know, it’s transparency. It’s really honest talking and calming him down.
“We can say that many people are losing their houses now. We have all the essentials. And despite everything, we are family. And we are healthy, and we are together. And we will always have a place to live, and we can say so,” she said.
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Chambers is helping raise money for victims of the California wildfires through her charity, Cupcake for a Cause.
The owner of Bird Bakery is donating 100% of the proceeds from the Strawberry Lemonade Cupcake to the Los Angeles Fire Department through February 1st.
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“Over the past nearly 13 years in business, we’ve consistently created CUPCAKE FOR A CAUSE™️ to help a multitude of tragedies and events in our community and beyond, and this is no exception,” Chambers’ company posted on Instagram earlier this week. .
“My children and I have been evacuated for the past 7 days and we are still praying for the safety of our home, but we are lucky. This has truly been the most devastating unimaginable for many, and this is our opportunity to help.”
“It’s vanilla cake with sliced strawberries and lemon buttercream,” Chambers told Fox News Digital. “And we’ve sold so many in the last few days, and that money goes directly to the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation.”
She noted that taste matters because 90% of all strawberries grown in the United States come from California, and “we turn lemons into lemonade.”
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Fox News Digital’s Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.
