Palisades Fire: Sarah Michelle Gellar Leads Stars Blast LA Mayor As Gridlock Paralyzes Evacuees

Sarah Michelle Gellar chastised Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Tuesday as the Palisades Fire burned in Los Angeles.

“City of LA you want everyone to evacuate yet you have complete gridlock and not a traffic officer on the roads to help,” Gellar wrote on Instagram stories tagging the official social media accounts for the City of Los Angeles and Bass.

The Palisades Fire, driven by strong Santa Ana winds, began in the Santa Monica Mountains late Tuesday morning and quickly consumed 200 acres within an hour, growing to nearly 3,000 acres by sunset, FOX Weather reported.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar was one of many to criticize LA Mayor Karen Bass as fires roared through Los Angeles neighborhoods. (Getty Images)

Former “Dancing with the Stars” professional dancer Valentin Chmerkovskiy aired grievances on social media Wednesday, writing: “5th largest economy on the planet. Firefighters didn’t have enough water pressure to do their job?! Are you kidding me?! The taxes we pay because 3rd world infrastructure is incredible?!

Sarah Foster wrote XWe pay the highest taxes in California. Our hydrants were empty. Our vegetation was overgrown, brush not cleared. Our reservoirs were emptied by our governor because tribal leaders wanted to save fish. Our fire department budget was cut by our mayor. But thank God drug addicts get their drug kits. @MayorOfLA @GavinNewsom RESIGN. Your far left politics have destroyed our state. And also our party.”

Celebrity fitness trainer Jillian Michaels recalled losing her home in the 2018 Woolsey Fire when she took to X to criticize California’s leadership.

“Plan’s 5th largest economy. Firefighters didn’t have enough water pressure to do their job?! Are you kidding me?! The taxes we pay for 3rd world infrastructure are unbelievable?!”

— Valentin Chmerkovskiy

“Apparently the mayor is in Ghana,” she wrote. “Apparently the fire department budget was cut by 17 million. And someone made the decision not to refill some of the reservoirs – now some hydrants are dry. The leadership in California is negligent. This is completely unacceptable.”

In another post, Michaels continued: “California Governor @GavinNewsom issues a press release admitting they knew about the crazy fire risk this past Sunday because he suggested fire trucks. And yet he just called in the National Guard a few hours ago. Pacific Palisades ran running out of water at 3am is not a partisan issue, it’s pure incompetence and misprioritization.”

The Palisades Fire is ravaging a neighborhood under high winds in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Sarah Michelle Gellar and professional dancer Valentin Chmerkovskiy criticized management’s response to the LA fires. (Instagram)

James Woods, who lost his home Tuesday in the Palisades fire, wrote X that the fire was not from “climate change” but because of “liberal idiots like Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass.”

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“One doesn’t understand the first thing about fire management and the other can’t fill the water reservoirs,” he added. Woods posted throughout the day as he prepared to evacuate his home, and he later gave fans a somber update that he had lost his house in Pacific Palisades.

Steve Guttenberg jumped into action to help firefighters, moving cars stranded on Sunset Boulevard by residents fleeing the fire, he told Fox News Digital exclusively. “It’s kind of like Zombieland, you know, there’s all these abandoned cars all over the street.”

Los Angeles Fire Department officials confirmed the Palisades fire broke out after 11 near the southeast side of Palisades Drive. Evacuation orders were issued as the fire grew to approximately 200 acres in size.

Vehicles are left on the road after passengers were stuck in traffic during evacuation. (Getty Images)

Guttenberg — known for his roles in “Police Academy” and “Three Men and a Baby” — urged people who left their vehicles behind during evacuations to also leave their keys behind so crews could get through to the fire.

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“What people do is they leave their cars and it’s a crisis and they don’t leave their keys in their cars,” Guttenberg told Fox News Digital. “What happens is the fire trucks can’t get up the street because they have all these abandoned cars with no way to move them. So what I did was help move cars and put them up on the hill and clean up the way. for the fire department.”

“I just wanted to see what I can do to help some of my neighbors, but it’s a ghost town.”

– Steve Guttenberg

Guttenberg noted that the fire was “the biggest fire we’ve ever seen in the Palisades. It’s huge.”

“We’ve had small fires, but this is definitely the biggest, and it’s just burning out of control in certain areas,” he said. “I was able to make it here, kind of a pocket where there’s no fire. So everybody’s safe and I just wanted to see what I can do to help some of my neighbors, but it’s a ghost town .All are gone..And I think that’s what matters.

WATCH: Steve Guttenberg remembers helping firefighters during the Palisades fire.

Cars are pictured in the wake of a Pacific Palisades inferno on January 7, 2025. (KTTV)

Reality TV star Spencer Pratt and wife Heidi Montag lost their home in The Palisades Firethey confirmed on their Snapchat accounts on Tuesday. In a series of videos, “The Hills” star showed how the fire quickly moved over the hill towards their property.

“Well, this doesn’t look good,” Pratt said as he filmed the fire on the mountain behind their home. “First time I’ve seen the flames come over. Oh, man. Okay, I’ll go pack, I guess.”

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He later posted a video from his car stating that he saw their home burning down on their security cameras. Pratt shared a photo of her child’s room and said it was burned in the shape of a heart.

An air tanker makes a drop on the Palisades Fire. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Spencer Pratt shared photos from inside her home, captured by security cameras. (Spencer Pratt Snapchat)

Chris Pratt offered prayers for evacuees and those unable to leave the fires. (Rodin Eckenroth/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images)

Chris Pratt posted on X asking that people join him in praying for “the brave firefighters who sacrifice so much to save our homes and our city.”

“Jesus protects the lives of those fighting the flames and the lives of those who could not evacuate,” he wrote.

Former Food Network personality Sandra Lee shared a carousel of photos from around Malibu on Tuesday before revealing on Wednesday morning that she had lost her home.

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“Good morning, thank you for all your greetings. I’m in a hotel. I don’t have a home anymore, my house is gone. It’s literally gone,” she said. “I’ve been crying all night. Thank God everyone is safe.

“I don’t know what to say, I don’t know how to break this down, I don’t know what to do … all my stuff, all the last five years of my life. So the only thing I can do is go on work and I have to go to work today as I go to work every day and I think I don’t know how.

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