La Fires

[Hymie]

My heart bleeds for the multi-millionaire film stars who have lost one of their many homes in the conflagration (as covered incessantly on news channels) - no-one seems to care about the ordinary residents who have lost everything and have very little money in the bank.

[Hymie]

They are even listing A list celebs whose property escaped the fire:-

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14268755/Tom-Hanks-Pacific-Palisades-mansion-avoids-LA-fire-California.html

[davebro3]

phew! what a relief!

[Peter Pedant]

I had never heard a mention of God or God's will  ( before midday to day - and that was to thank God for sparing one sysnagogue and er allowing the one across the road to burn

Nor of fire or hell fire - as a poonie for being a bad republic

[New Judge]

I can understand your point – to a degree.

But newspapers are in the business of er… selling newspapers. The fires are a terrible tragedy and many “ordinary” people have been affected by them. However, once the papers have reported the basics (i.e. the extent of the fires, whether they can be extinguished, etc.) that’s largely it.

So they keep it going with reports of celebs being affected and of course LA is a great place to find them. And the plain fact is that many people are interested in the lives of celebs. I can’t imagine why but they are.

So the papers are not going to carry reports of Tracey Crudgington, a cleaner who has lost her home, or of Gary Grimshaw, a swimming pool maintenance man whose home was destroyed, unless of course Tracey cleans Tom Hanks’ house or Gary tops up Paris Hilton’s swimming pool. Then they may get a line or two.

For my part they might as well report on the plight of Tracey and Gary because whilst I’ve heard of Tom Hanks and Paris Hilton, I’ve never heard of Tina Knowles, John Goodman, Candy Spelling, Milo Ventimiglia, Miles Teller, Milo Ventimiglia, Denise Crosby, Jamie Chung, Bryan Greenburg (I only got about a quarter of the way down the Mail’s list before I realised I was unlikely to have heard of anybody on it). But lots of people have, and it sells papers.

That said, because they have stacks of dosh and can easily find accommodation elsewhere, if they’ve lived in a house for a long time, made it their own and filled it with things they like, its loss will be just as devastating as the loss Tracey and Gary suffered. It’s just that the celebs have the means to rebuild far more readily than they can. 

[Khandro]

Rich or not so rich (there's no really poor living there). It's a horrible thing to happen.

I recently thought I'd lost my wallet, thinking it must have happened when I changed my jacket when standing in a car park.

I had the most terrible, stressful hour, thinking of all the things I would have to replace: credit & debit cards, my German residency card, my driving licence, my health insurance card & more.

Then my wife found it in the house on the floor in the bathroom.

If losing just a wallet can cause so much distress, I can't imagine how awful it must be to lose one's home and every possession one has with it.