Daryn Simons, a producer, rushed to her Pacific Palisades home from work this morning to grab her animals — Harper, a yellow lab, and Maeve, a cat — before she fled the fire.
“If you were looking toward the ocean, on the left it was bright blue, and on the right it looked like an inferno,” Simons said. “I’ve never seen anything so scary.”
Simons was in the process of downsizing; She had picked up keys to a new condominium yesterday.
By this afternoon, she sat in an empty, echoing condominium unit alongside her daughter, scanning the web for snippets of new information.
“We’re just sitting here looking at the fire map, just waiting to see if our house is going to make it,” Simons said. “My mom just got here. She’s bringing us blow-up mattresses. I ordered food.”
Her daughter peppered her with brief snippets of news, and she relayed them to a reporter.
“We just heard our friends got out. They got the Torahs out of the Chabad. Thank God,” Simons said, adding that she was concerned the local temple might burn.
A neighbor had lost his dream home, she learned. She was awaiting news of others.
“I’m worried about my 80-year-old neighbors across the way,” she said. “I just hope and pray everybody gets out OK. Property can be replaced. Humans and animals can’t.”
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