With blazing fires continuing to engulf Southern California, Ellen DeGeneres and wife Portia de Rossi Ellen DeGeneres have been forced to evacuate their home — a beachfront property that’s been on sale since March.
Currently, the fires have spread through an area bigger than Boston and New York combined: The Thomas Fire now spans over 230,000 acres and is the fifth largest fire in California history.
In a recent tweet, Ellen reveals “our house is under threat of being burned.”
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“We just had to evacuate our pets.”
Our house is under threat of being burned. We just had to evacuate our pets. I’m praying for everyone in our community and thankful to all the incredible firefighters. The live stream is on https://t.co/FTcKVvHO16
— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) December 10, 2017
Later, she posted an update: “Everyone in the Montecito area is checking up on each other and helping to get people and animals to safety.”
Our house is under threat of being burned. We just had to evacuate our pets. I’m praying for everyone in our community and thankful to all the incredible firefighters. The live stream is on https://t.co/FTcKVvHO16
— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) December 10, 2017
“I’m proud to be a part of this community.
I’m sending lots of love and gratitude to the fire department and sheriffs.”
Everyone in the Montecito area is checking up on each other and helping to get people and animals to safety. I’m proud to be a part of this community. I’m sending lots of love and gratitude to the fire department and sheriffs. Thank you all. #ThomasFire
— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) December 10, 2017
“Thank you all.”
Currently, roughly 4,000 firefighters are working around the clock in the hopes of extinguishing the blaze.
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Meanwhile, Republicans are working feverishly to screw blue states.
“It’s appalling Republicans are taking money from any wildfire victims to pay for tax cuts for the rich,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said in a statement. “A family who loses everything in a wildfire shouldn’t have to pray for a federal declaration so they can recover. Tax relief should be available to help all victims regardless of the type of natural disaster.”
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) also took California Republicans to task Thursday for supporting the House GOP tax bill, saying they “voted to discriminate against victims of fire. We certainly want to have the deduction for victims of hurricanes and the rest, but why are they doing this to our state?”
Because they can?
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-congress-tax-fire-20171210-story.html
Ari Gold
Unless the house was actually ablaze and she and Portia had to be escorted out by firefighters, how is this news? They were not the only ones forced to leave.
captainburrito
This was news just because it was their house and they spent alot of money on it. When it was up for sale with no buyers it was news again. Now it is in the general vicinity of the CA fires so it must definitely be news now!!