By Hannah Lang and Brendan O’Brien
(Reuters) – Film and television stars including Jamie Lee Curtis, Mandy Moore and James Woods were among those forced to evacuate and left wondering whether their homes survived the out-of-control wildfires burning around Los Angeles.
The day after Woods evacuated his house in Pacific Palisades, an affluent neighborhood that sits between the beach towns of Santa Monica and Malibu, he described the scene as an “inferno” where “every house around us was on fire.”
“We were literally in the exact epicenter of the fire as it started,” Woods, an award-winning actor known for roles in “Salvador,” “Ghosts of Mississippi” and “Any Given Sunday,” said on CNN on Wednesday. “There was so much chaos. It was like an inferno.”
Strong, dry winds have fanned the blaze burning around Pacific Palisades, and the area’s narrow, winding streets combined with the rush of thousands of people ordered to evacuate have…
