‘Top Gun: Maverick’ star saved late grandfather’s watch before home burned down in Palisades Fire

"Top Gun: Maverick" prima Miles Teller is detailing the moments starring up to his family's evacuation during the Palisades Fire. 

During an quality connected "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," the histrion explained that earlier his location successful the Pacific Palisades burned down, his grandma had relocated to Southern California and was surviving with him aft his gramps died.

"So, my woman and I woke up, and wherever we lived successful the Palisades, we were benignant of connected immoderate elevation. So, arsenic soon arsenic we opened our curtains successful our maestro chamber balcony, we saw astatine our 12 o'clock the occurrence starting. And it was precise small. I deliberation it was astatine 2 acres astatine that point. And my wife, who is from Southern California, was starting to get a spot anxious but acceptable to act," Teller told Colbert. 

Miles Teller's Pacific Palisades location burned down during the LA Fires. (Getty Images/Keleigh Teller/Instagram)

Teller explained that the occurrence was astir 3 miles distant from his location erstwhile they archetypal spotted flames.

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"And Keleigh said, ‘If that occurrence goes from 12 to 3 o’clock, we're truly successful trouble, and we've got to move.' I was taking attraction of my grandma astatine the clip due to the fact that my grandfather, who I was highly adjacent with, helium had conscionable passed distant a mates weeks before. So, I was readying connected moving her retired to California with me," helium said. 

"I would accidental from the clip we woke up and saw it to mandatory evacuation, I would accidental similar 90 minutes to 2 hours. And we're watching it connected TV arsenic it's happening, and radical are abandoning cars."

"So, I was like, ‘Hey Mup.’ That's what we telephone her. I said, ‘Don’t beryllium alarmed, but possibly you should commencement getting your paperwork unneurotic and your meds and things similar that.' And past we conscionable kinda grabbed precise little. We ne'er thought that it was going to travel wherever we were. It's precise residential." 

Burned properties aft the Palisades Fire successful the Pacific Palisades neighborhood. (Reuters/Mike Blake)

Teller explained that his location wasn't surrounded by immoderate "brush," conscionable household homes and family-owned businesses. 

"Fire is scary. I grew up successful the East Coast and hurricanes a batch of the clip successful Florida. Usually, they're benignant of scaring you for similar a week. You person a batch of heads-up. But for the fire, antheral it moved fast. I would accidental from the clip we woke up and saw it to mandatory evacuation, I would accidental similar 90 minutes to 2 hours. And we're watching it connected TV arsenic it's happening, and radical are abandoning cars. 

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"At that point, radical are already grabbing their kids and moving down the street, and it was axenic … it was beauteous chaotic. Absolutely." 

Firefighters ticker a chopper driblet h2o connected the Palisades Fire Jan. 11. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

The aftermath of the occurrence successful Pacific Palisades and on Pacific Coast Highway. (David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images))

Teller flashed his ticker during the speech amusement and explained that, portion evacuating, helium grabbed his grandfather's watch. 

"One of the items I took was my grandfather's watch. I don't cognize what camera that is," Teller said, portion pointing to his grandfather's ticker connected his wrist.

At the LA FireAid Benefit Concert Thursday, Teller broke his soundlessness aft helium and his wife, Keleigh Teller, lost their location during the Palisades Fire.

Miles and Keleigh Teller's location burnt down past month. (Keleigh Teller Instagram/Getty)

"First, I conscionable privation to springiness a shout-out. I cognize determination are a batch of archetypal responders present tonight. I cognize determination are a batch watching astatine home. So, convey you each for keeping america safe. Thank you.

"My woman and I, similar a batch of america successful the Pacific Palisades, mislaid our location successful the fires, and my bosom breaks for everyone who has been affected crossed the city. Truly, my bosom goes retired to each you guys." 

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Last month, Keleigh took to Instagram to station before-and-after photos of their house, noting successful the caption that she regretted leaving her wedding formal down erstwhile she and the histrion evacuated earlier the flames consumed their property. 

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"If you’re successful the LA country PLEASE get retired if you can. I privation I grabbed my wedding formal .. privation I did a batch antithetic but it doesn’t matter, enactment safe, get out," Keleigh wrote successful portion astatine the time.

Teller was joined connected signifier by a neighbour of his, who shared his moving, idiosyncratic communicative astir however the Palisades Fire affected him and his family. 

Miles Teller's woman Keleigh "wished" she would person grabbed her wedding formal portion evacuating during the Palisades Fire. (Justin Tallis/AFP)

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Musicians gathered successful Los Angeles for the FireAid payment concert, which was held astatine the Intuit Dome and Kia Forum. The extremity of the payment was to rebuild communities decimated by the fires that burned done Los Angeles successful January.