One normally never hears of the rich and famous getting affected by wildfires

@allknowing (130064)

• India

13 Nov 18

Be it any disaster in the normal course the rich and famous are never affected. This is the first time I see it is happening

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Michele

@Aquitaine24 (11653)

• San Jose, California

2 Jan 19

I agree.

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Hope

@1hopefulman (45123)

• Canada

13 Nov 18

Fire does not look at who you are, it burns anything in its path.

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Hope

@1hopefulman (45123)

• Canada

1 Dec 18

@bagarad That is true!

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@allknowing (130064)

• India

1 Dec 18

More often than not we never hear of this category getting affected with such disasters.

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@bagarad (14283)

• Paso Robles, California

1 Dec 18

That is very true. It's no respecter of persons.

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marguicha

@marguicha (215470)

• Chile

13 Nov 18

Worse still is when people who don´t have much money are forced to fleee from their hpmes. Their homes usually are not insured as celebs homes are.

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@allknowing (130064)

• India

13 Nov 18

That is the case most of the time.

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marguicha

@marguicha (215470)

• Chile

13 Nov 18

@allknowing Right. One of the Kardashians hired a lot of personal firemen to save her home.

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Cynthia Owens

@cindiowens (5120)

• North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

14 Nov 18

@marguicha Seriously?? They are going to pay people to risk their lives for material possessions? SMH

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Anna

@LadyDuck (458233)

• Switzerland

13 Nov 18

It is because we do not remember what happened in the past. It already happened in 1978 it was called the "Agoura-Malibu Firestorm". I remember because we went to Los Angeles a couple of years later and you could still the damages in Malibu.

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@allknowing (130064)

• India

13 Nov 18

It was almost 40 years ago but disasters strike the world in different parts of the world every year and several times in a year but we never hear of the rich and famous getting affected.

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@bagarad (14283)

• Paso Robles, California

30 Nov 18

@allknowing When you live close to the affected celebrities you hear about it. I lived and worked near Brentwood and Malibu. The west part of Los Angeles County, especially in the canyons and hills often burn. There are also frequent fires in Santa Barbara -- another wealthy area.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (458233)

• Switzerland

13 Nov 18

@allknowing Forty years ago many houses of the rich and famous were destroyed. In more recent times it happened in Beverly Hills. Of course this big fire is destroying more houses than it happened in the past. The rich and famous have enough money to build another... most normal people have lost everything, included their dream to have a house where to retire.

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Eva James

@wolfgirl569 (95226)

• Marion, Ohio

13 Nov 18

I feel bad for all that have lost there. But at least most of them already have someplace else they can go.

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@allknowing (130064)

• India

13 Nov 18

The poor can adjust but not the rich in such circumstances.

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@allknowing (130064)

• India

14 Nov 18

@wolfgirl569 Very true and every one rushes to help them out

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Eva James

@wolfgirl569 (95226)

• Marion, Ohio

14 Nov 18

@allknowing The rich just cry louder

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Cynthia Owens

@cindiowens (5120)

• North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

14 Nov 18

They put their pants on just like everybody else. I'm sure they have loads of insurance. Just so they got out safely, that's what really matters.

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@allknowing (130064)

• India

14 Nov 18

They may have insurance but they too have to go through the ordeal that one has to face with such disasters.

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@bagarad (14283)

• Paso Robles, California

30 Nov 18

@cindiowens The celebrities won't be left homeless. It's the people farther north in the town of Paradise who have lost everything and are homeless now in the cold of winter.

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Cynthia Owens

@cindiowens (5120)

• North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

14 Nov 18

@allknowing I just hope the insurance companies don't fold leaving them all homeless. I know, it is an ordeal, but at least they have that. Hopefully.

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Amber

@AmbiePam (85514)

• United States

13 Nov 18

I was surprised to hear Gerard Butler, Miley Cyrus, and others lost their homes. It always seems to miss famous people, yes. At least you know they have good insurance.

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@allknowing (130064)

• India

13 Nov 18

They may have lost things that even insurance will not get them back

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@allknowing (130064)

• India

1 Dec 18

@bagarad It was only in the context of the rich not getting this experience as often as the poor do in disasters that I wrote this post. I am fully aware of what anyone goes through in such circumstances.

@bagarad (14283)

• Paso Robles, California

30 Nov 18

@allknowing I'm guessing many of those people have more than one house and lots of savings. Sure they lost things, but they can afford to buy more. I feel much sorrier for the ordinary people who lost everything and live paycheck to paycheck who can't afford to replace their loss until the insurance -- if they have any -- kicks in.

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@bagarad (14283)

• Paso Robles, California

30 Nov 18

The celebrities were certainly affected, but they certainly weren't the only ones. A whole town (Paradise) burned down in Northern California and most people there don't have the money to find decent living quarters as they wait to rebuild. They are camping out in the cold. Even our tenants who live in the house we lived in before we moved here had to evacuate, since our old neighborhood was under a mandatory evacuation order. Fortunately the fire didn't get all the way there. It was a rough week for our tenants, since the father of the family is a sheriff's deputy and he had to go to the scene of the shooting in Thousand Oaks at the same time the fires were going on and his family was evacuated. The shooter, it turns out, lived within walking distance of where we used to live, but he didn't live there when we did.

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