Neighbors Save a Stranger’s Home From Burning Embers Flying Above Hollywood Hills (WATCH)

January 12, 2025 journo

Amid the tragic property loss from Southern California wildfires comes a story of neighbors helping neighbors—and possibly saving Hollywood—by working together.

A new brush fire had started spreading on Wednesday evening near Runyan Canyon and the hills overlooking the densely populated area of Hollywood Boulevard.

Evacuation orders were issued, but luckily, some residents stayed put and were able to stop a possible catastrophe.

Blowing embers from the fire ignited a tall palm tree above a house in a neighborhood where the homeowners had already fled.

A half dozen neighbors jumped into action with a ladder, tossing hoses onto the roof to spray the palm tree, as its embers starting scattering onto the driveway and home below.

A roving ABC-7 news crew was on the scene with reporter Tim Caputo describing the actions of the Good Samaritans:

“The concern is all these ashes are falling on top of this house and the house next door. To this point with this fire, we have not seen any houses go up in flames, but you know how it gets, one turns to two, turns to a dozen really quickly,” said Caputo in a video report posted on Twitter/X. (Watch the dramatic video below…)

Afterward, Caputo talked to Tony, one of the people who helped save the neighborhood.

“The balcony was on fire and I went around back to grab the garden hose and luckily they had a Ring camera as well. They were like, ‘Hello, what are you doing?’ And I’m like, ‘Your house is on fire; I’m trying to save it.’ So, they were grateful.”

After 40 minutes of hosing down the palm tree, the embers finally went out.

“These people are absolute heroes. Probably saved a lot of homes from catching fire,” commented one viewer of the video on X.

In Hollywood, a palm tree caught on fire, and embers were raining down on a home.

Good Samaritans contacted the homeowners via a Ring camera, and the homeowner gave them access so that they could take a hose up onto the roof.

Look at those embers… imagine if they hadn’t… pic.twitter.com/qEgExwccHv

— Yashar Ali (@yashar) January 9, 2025

Los Angeles Firefighters gained the upper hand around midnight, over what had been dubbed the Sunset Fire, fully containing the brush fire behind the Hollywood Hills. And the city lifted evacuation orders for the area on Thursday.

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