Conservative Hollywood star James Woods, who has been nominated for Oscars twice and has won three Emmy Awards, experienced a miracle in the wildfires in the Los Angeles area.
Woods was informed that his house in the affluent Pacific Palisades community of Los Angeles was destroyed in the Palisades Fire, and he tearfully expressed his sorrow facing the television cameras. On Friday, when he returned to his home, expecting to face a wasteland, he was pleasantly surprised to find his house still standing there, while most of the neighboring houses had been burnt to the ground.
He said, “A miracle has happened.”
The deadly Palisades Fire broke out on Tuesday, and Woods had previously shared a video on social media showing the fire engulfing two houses near his own. He later said he had evacuated his home on Tuesday.
He told CNN that when he evacuated by car, he only took some clothes, glasses, and medication. After leaving home for a safer place, he was uncertain if he could return.
“It was chaos at the time,” Woods told CNN’s Pamela Brown on Wednesday. “It was like hell, every house around us was on fire.”
As he spoke about the disaster and the home he believed to be destroyed, tears streamed down his face.
However, everything changed on Friday when he was able to go back to check on his property and found his house still standing amidst the rubble.
“A miracle has happened. We managed to get back to our property, and the home we were told was forever gone still stands.” Woods shared on X platform.
“On this hellish land, ‘still standing’ is relative, but the smoke and other destruction are not as thorough as the houses around us.”
Woods shared a video (click here), in which the houses around his home were “completely destroyed.” He said the video was shot on his own terrace, and the houses below were completely burnt.
James Woods is a talented individual who graduated from MIT and entered the Broadway stage after that, making his way into the film industry in 1972. Some of his notable works include “Salvador”, “Once Upon a Time in America”, “Casino”, “Ghosts of Mississippi”, and “The General’s Daughter”.