From Police Academy to the fire station.
Wildfires are currently raging in California, threatening the homes of thousands of people in the affluent Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles. The fire has already burned around 3,000 acres, while a fire that started near Eaton Canyon in Pasadena has destroyed 1,000 acres, and a third fire north of San Fernando has burned around 500 acres, all in the past 24 hours or so.
Tackling the blazes has been a challenge so far, with near-record low humidities and strong winds causing the fires to spread rapidly. Locals have been advised to evacuate, with some abandoning their cars on the road and running away on foot as the fires spread so rapidly that evacuees aren't able to escape in time.
It's just a terrible scene, with heartbreaking videos coming out of folks leaving their homes as the fire moves closer and closer.
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But of course in the bad times, there are plenty of people who are jumping in to help - including actor Steve Guttenberg.
If you're somehow not familiar, Guttenberg starred in several hits in the late '80s and '90s, including movies like the Police Academy series, Three Men and a Baby, It Takes Two, and many more. He's stayed active in recent years with movies like Roe v. Wade and TV shows like The Goldbergs and Ballers.
And like most actors, Guttenberg lives in Hollywood and is dealing with the wildfires in his own neighborhood.
But instead of evacuating, the star decided to jump in and help, moving cars from the street so firetrucks could get through.
During an interview with KTLA, Guttenberg urged residents who were abandoning their cars on the streets to leave their keys in the car so that he could move them for fire crews:
"Here on Palisades Drive, if anybody has a car and they leave their car, leave the keys in the car so that we can move your car so that these firetrucks can get up Palisades Drive.What's happening is people take their keys from them as if they're in a parking lot. This is not a parking lot. We really need people to move their car. So if you leave your car on Palisades Drive, leave your key in there so a guy like me can move your car...so that these firetrucks can get up there. It's really, really important."
Guttenberg confirmed that he lives in the area and has friends who currently aren't able to evacuate.
It appears that at first, the reporter didn't seem to realize who he was talking to, until it clicked when he asked Guttenberg his name:
"You're an actor? Ok, now you look familiar. You look familiar to me now."
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It's a terrible situation, one that seems to be happening all too often in California as these fires break out nearly every year and cause untold devastation. But luckily, there are people like Steve Guttenberg who are willing to jump in to help try to get people to safety.
