Actor Steve Guttenberg Describes Terrifying Scenes Of Palisades Fire

“Police Academy” star Steve Guttenberg described the terrifying scenes of the Palisades Fire in Southern California where he lives, calling it the “most unbelievable” blaze he’d ever seen.

Speaking to KTLA 5 News, the 66-year-old actor on Tuesday pleaded with people who had abandoned their cars during evacuation to leave their keys behind so they could be moved to allow first responders into the area to battle the fires blazing thanks to high speed Santa Ana winds.

“What’s happening is people take their keys with them as if they’re in a parking lot,” Guttenberg said. “This is not a parking lot. We really need people to move their cars. If you leave your car behind, leave the key in there so a guy like me can move your car so that these fire trucks can get up there.”

He explained that he had friends on the hill in the line of fire who he said “can’t evacuate cause they are stuck” behind the cars that are blocking the road.

“There are people stuck up there. So we’re trying to clear Palisades Drive and I’m walking up there as far as I can moving cars,” the actor said. “There are families up there, there are pets up there. There are people who really need help.”

Later Tuesday night, Guttenberg spoke to CNN and said that he hadn’t “seen anything like this in my entire life, and I don’t think many people have.”

“At 9 o’clock in the morning, it was an idyllic Pacific Palisades, and then by 10 o’clock, 10:30, the sky was dark as if it were nighttime,” Guttenberg said. “The fire was so close that everybody was told to get out of their cars … the police said get out of your cars.”

He said he spent “all day trying to move” the cars that did have keys in them, so the firefighters could get into the area.

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“There were mothers who were hysterical [having] panic attacks, helping them with their suitcases and they were worried about their families up there because they couldn’t get them out in time,” Guttenberg said.  “There were little kids crying. There were people who couldn’t speak English, driving their friends’ cars or their boss’ cars and being careful where they drove. This is the most unbelievable fire I’ve ever seen.”

In addition to dozens of stars being part of the tens of thousands of people who had to evacuate their homes due to the Palisades Fire, Hurst Fire, and Eaton Fire, numerous premiers in Hollywood were canceled including Universal’s “Wolf Man” and Paramount Pictures’ “Better Man,” The Hollywood Reporter noted.

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