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

Hollywood actress Elizabeth Chambers has claimed that the government's response to the Los Angeles fires was inadequate.

In an interview with Fox News Digital, Chambers, 42, was asked if she thought city officials did everything they could to put out the Los Angeles fires.

“I think it was a disaster,” she said. “I don't think anyone was prepared for it. I don't think anyone expected it to be on a scale.”

Chambers shared his feelings about billionaire real estate developer and former Los Angeles mayoral candidate Rick Caruso.

“And Caruso saved the village of Palisades. … You can be political, you can't. But at the end of the day, he had time to prepare like everyone else. …I mean, it’s untouched. It’s eerily untouched.”

“Music is still playing in Palisades Village and it's as if it's Disneyland and everything around it has been destroyed. So do you think that action was taken appropriately and quickly? Absolutely not Masu.”

Caruso, who ran unsuccessfully in the 2022 mayoral race against Karen Bass, previously called the Palisades fire, which destroyed millions of dollars of real estate and no longer had a water supply, “an absolute mismanagement by the city.” He said that it represents.

“There's no water in the Palisades. There's no water coming out of the fire hydrants. This is completely mismanagement by the city. It's not the firefighters' fault, it's the city's fault,” Caruso told Fox11 as the fire raged. told Los Angeles.

A deadly fire broke out in the Los Angeles area on January 7, destroying homes and businesses and forcing tens of thousands of residents to evacuate for safety.

Officials said Thursday that more than 30 people were still missing and two more people died, bringing the death toll to 27.

Chambers recounted the moment she had to evacuate as she quickly gathered her and her children's belongings.

“I took our passports. I took our birth certificates. I took just such pictures…old family photos that were lying around the house,” she told Fox News. Explained digitally. “I just packed up for a few nights.”

The TV personality, who has two children with ex-husband Armie Hammer, has told her young children (daughter Harper, 10, and son Ford, 7) what she thinks about the tragic fires in California. He explained how he explained it to him.

“I think you have to be the captain of the plane in everything you do when raising children. … When the captain panics, the passengers panic, and I think that's how I generally approach raising children.” We're working on it,” she told FOX News Digital.

“But if the pilot of the plane doesn't panic and says everything is fine and you know you're about to crash, you don't trust that pilot. So transparency It's a really honest conversation and it's reassuring.

“Right now I can say that many people are homeless. We have everything that matters. And no matter what, we are a family. And we are healthy and together. And we always have a place to live, that's what I can say.''

Chambers is helping raise money for victims of the California fires through her charity, Cupcakes for a Cause.

The owners of Bird Bakery will be donating 100% of the proceeds from their Strawberry Lemonade Cupcakes to the Los Angeles Fire Department through February 1st.

“Throughout the past nearly 13 years of business, we have consistently created CUPCAKE FOR A CAUSE™️ to benefit numerous tragedies and events within and outside our region, and this is no exception,” Chambers said. the company posted on Instagram earlier this week. .

“My children and I have been evacuated for the past seven days and we are still praying for the safety of our home, but we are lucky. This is truly the worst thing imaginable for many people, and this is our This is your chance to help.”

“It's a vanilla cake with sliced ​​strawberries folded in and lemon buttercream,” Chambers told Fox News Digital. “And we've already sold so many items over the past few days that the money will go directly to the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation.”

She said the flavor makes sense because 90 percent of strawberries grown in the United States come from California, and “we're turning lemons into lemonade.”