Hollywood actress calls LA Fires ‘a disaster,’ says not enough was done by elected officials

Hollywood histrion Elizabeth Chambers argues not capable was being done by the authorities during the LA fires. 

During an interrogation with Fox News Digital, Chambers, 42, was asked if she believed metropolis officials did everything they could to incorporate the Los Angeles fires. 

"I deliberation it was a disaster," she remarked. "I don't deliberation anybody was ready. I deliberation it is connected a standard that cipher anticipated."

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Elizabeth Chambers told Fox News Digital what she grabbed erstwhile she and her kids had to evacuate during the Los Angeles fires. (Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for Vanity Fair)

Chambers shared her sentiments regarding billionaire existent property developer and erstwhile Los Angeles mayoral campaigner Rick Caruso.

"And past Caruso saved Palisades Village. … You tin get political, oregon you can't. But, astatine the extremity of the day, helium had arsenic overmuch clip arsenic everyone other to get ready. … I mean, it's untouched. It's eerily untouched."

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"The euphony is inactive playing successful Palisades Village, arsenic if it's Disneyland and everything astir it is destruction. So, bash I deliberation the steps were taken appropriately and rapidly enough? Absolutely not."

Caruso, who unsuccessfully ran against Karen Bass for politician successful 2022, antecedently said the non-existent h2o proviso arsenic the Palisades Fire reduced multimillion-dollar existent property to ashes represented "absolute mismanagement by the city."

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Rick Caruso blasted the deficiency of h2o successful the Palisades. (Getty Images)

"There's nary h2o successful the Palisades. There's nary h2o coming retired of the occurrence hydrants. This is an implicit mismanagement by the city. Not the firefighters' fault, but the city's," Caruso told Fox11 Los Angeles erstwhile the fires raged. 

The deadly fires broke retired successful the Los Angeles country Jan. 7, forcing tens of thousands of residents to fly for information arsenic their homes and businesses were destroyed. Officials connected Thursday said much than 30 radical stay missing portion 2 further deaths brought the fig of those dormant to 27.

"So, bash I deliberation the steps were taken appropriately and rapidly enough? Absolutely not."

Firefighters ticker a chopper driblet h2o connected the Palisades Fire successful Mandeville Canyon successful Los Angeles Jan. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Chambers elaborate the infinitesimal she had to evacuate arsenic she instantly gathered her and her children's idiosyncratic belongings.

"I took our passports. I took commencement certificates. I took pictures of conscionable similar that … were astir the location … older household photos," she explained to Fox News Digital. "I conscionable packed for a mates of nights."

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Chambers said erstwhile she evacuated, she "took our passports. I took commencement certificates. I took pictures of conscionable similar that … were astir the location … older household photos." (Morgan Lieberman/FilmMagic/Getty Images)

The tv property has 2 children with her ex-husband, Armie Hammer, and shared however she explained the tragic California fires to her young kids, girl Harper, 10, and lad Ford, 7.

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"I think, with thing successful parenting, you person to beryllium the skipper of the plane. … If the skipper of the level is panicking, the passengers are panicking. And I conscionable attack parenting similar that successful general," she told Fox News Digital.

Chambers has 2 kids with ex-husband Armie Hammer, girl Harper, 10, and lad Ford, 7. (Paul Bruinooge/Patrick McMullan)

"But if the aviator of the level is not panicking and saying everything's fine, and you cognize that you're astir to crash, you besides don't spot the pilot. So, you know, it's transparency. It's truly honorable conversations and its reassurance.

"You tin accidental a batch of radical are losing their homes close now. We person everything that's important. And nary substance what, we're a family. And we're healthy, and we're together. And we'll ever person a spot to live, and that's what you tin say," she noted. 

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Chambers is helping rise wealth for the victims of the California fires done her charity, Cupcake for a Cause. 

The Bird Bakery proprietor is donating 100% of the proceeds from their Strawberry Lemonade Cupcake to the Los Angeles Fire Department until February 1.

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"Over the past astir 13 years successful business, we person consistently created a CUPCAKE FOR A CAUSE™️ to payment a multitude of tragedies and events successful our assemblage and beyond, and this is nary exception," Chambers’ institution posted connected Instagram earlier this week.

"My children and I person been evacuated for the past 7 days and we’re inactive praying for the information of our house, but we’re the fortunate ones. This has genuinely been the astir devastating unthinkable for truthful many, and this is our accidental to help."

"It's a vanilla barroom with sliced strawberries folded successful and citrus food cream," Chambers told Fox News Digital. "And we've sold truthful galore already successful the past fewer days, and that wealth goes straight to the LA Fire Department Foundation."

She noted that the spirit is meaningful due to the fact that 90% of each strawberries grown successful the United States travel from California, and "we are turning lemons into lemonade."

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Fox News Digital's Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.