Jamie Lee Curtis tried to keep it together as she spoke of the devastating wildfires in her Los Angeles neighborhood in an appearance on “The Tonight Show.”
“I’m literally just about to cry, mostly because of that beautiful welcome,” she told host Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday. “As you know, where I live is on fire right now. Literally, the entire city of the Pacific Palisades is burning.”
“I flew here last night. I was on a plane, started getting texts, and it’s fucking gnarly, you guys,” she said. “It’s just a catastrophe in Southern California.”
“Everything,” she added. “The market I shop in, the schools my kids go to, friends — many, many, many, many friends now — have lost their homes. So it is, it’s a really awful situation.”
She said she intended to return home “first thing tomorrow” to be with family and assist friends, and encouraged viewers to support the American Red Cross and do “whatever you can do” to help, including giving blood and donating to animal shelters.
She also reminded people across the country to always have an evacuation kit prepared.
“Have an emergency kit with prescription glasses, medicines, dog food, baby formula, all the things you need if you have to flee,” she said.
In an Instagram post afterward, she also suggested that people “laminate a card with all of the important telephone numbers because when all of the technology shuts down and there’s no electricity in the panic people forget how to reach each other.”
She said in earlier posts that “my community and possibly my home is on fire” but that her family is safe.
“It is a terrifying situation and I’m grateful to the firefighters and all of the good Samaritans who are helping people get out of the way of the blaze,” she said.
Multiple fires in Los Angeles County have destroyed hundreds of homes, including those of numerous celebrities, and forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate. Five people have died. The Palisades fire has gutted the affluent Pacific Palisades neighborhood.
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