Emily Procter, known for her roles in "The West Wing" and "CSI: Miami," believes her home has been destroyed by the Palisades wildfire. She describes seeing people running into her neighborhood to help as she evacuated with her family.

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Emily Procter, renowned for her roles in "The West Wing" and "CSI: Miami," has expressed her distress as her home faces potential destruction due to the ongoing Palisades wildfire in Los Angeles. Procter evacuated her home along with her family, reflecting on the surreal experience of hearing about her home's status from a stranger. During her interview, she praised the efforts of firefighters battling the blaze, particularly those from Fire Station 69, who play an integral part in the community. While Procter is thankful that her family is safe, she emphasized the significance of her neighborhood, portraying it not just as a collection of buildings, but as a community integral to their lives. 

Procter expressed gratitude for the survival of her family and the fact that there have been no fatalities so far, along with only one manageable injury of a firefighter reported. As she contemplates the loss, Procter reflected on the fabric of her community, which consists of families, neighbors, and local businesses. She also mentioned the broader impacts on communities like Altadena, highlighting the need for community revitalization and support. Throughout her reflections, Procter urged for an offering of community support and mentioned verified GoFundMe efforts aimed at supporting those affected by the fires. 



West Wing actor says her home likely lost in LA wildfires

We're sticking with the breaking news right now in our National League aerial firefighters dropping water, nearly disappearing through the thick plumes of smoke as the Pacific Palisades fire rages on in the hills of Los Angeles. Actress Emily Proctor, who you might know from the West Wing or CSI Miami, took those videos before fleeing her home in the Palisades. She joins us now. Emily, my deepest condolences. My cousin David and his family lives in the Palisades. They also have fled their homes. They think that they've lost their home. How are you? How is your family? Thank you for asking and I just want to say on behalf of your family and all of us, selfishly, I wanted to be here to say we loved our neighborhood and we still do and it was an incredible community. We have evacuated. I believe our home is also gone. It was news I got from a stranger, which is a very surreal experience, but gosh it was incredible on our way out to see the people going in to help and when I think about our neighborhood, I think about Fire Station 69 and all of the firefighters that we knew that held bake sales and toy drives and as my daughter would walk to her bus stop, we would see them with their Ralph's cart going to buy the dinner groceries and you know they're as much a part of our neighborhood as anyone and I know what they're having to do now must be extraordinarily difficult. Are you able to console yourself in any way that because you and your family are safe even as this horrible destruction happens to your to your property and your neighborhood? Is that at all a consolation? I hate to even ask that question but it just I mean it does seem it does seem incredible. It's a very interesting question. I mean I'm happy that you're safe I guess is my point. I'm just trying to think I'm trying to put my head into my cousin's head, my cousin David, and I'm trying to think I can't even imagine what he's going through but thank God he and his family are safe. It's a feeling that I did not expect to be hand in hand with this experience. You know I expected it to be thank God we're safe and we we did take some clothes and I took a few necessary items and I'm so grateful for it but what you realize is that all of those houses are not structures they're actually microcosms of people's lives and we all interact. You know I have an across-the-street neighbor who's pregnant and one whose son is applying for college and we have a new neighbor moving in and we were making plans to drop things off and I bicker back and forth with my postman about football teams and it has been my life and so I'm so grateful to have survived. It is my home. It is my neighborhood. It's my community and so when you see it burn it's not the things and you almost don't even think about the safety although I am so deeply grateful that there have been no fatalities and there seems to be a firefighter injured but but manageably injured and the things on those level have been survivable but what we mourn is our lives. Yeah the the place where those all those memories do not happen all the place where all those memories were made in the friendship in the community. Yes and all the little kids that I watched walk to school and become big kids and I watched them walk to school that are my neighbors and now I know they don't have schools and I just keep thinking like what is the path forward what is the best way how can it work and how can we make it work and I think that's going to be the next question we all have to answer is because we were such a feeling and close community is how do we make it work and I've heard from several people that I I use their businesses and they're just business owners and they've checked in and I think like how do we make it work for them to get back in like what does this look like moving forward and we have the same issue with Altadena and we've got all of these pockets where what I think is something that we should be investing in anyway in America's community hopefully we will have these opportunities and and people will really step forward and we'll learn new paths about how to make that work and I I I hope this for your family as well I I feel for them and I'm so sorry I am so sorry Emily and and you know watching watching your understandable emotion at a time like this really it's not just moving but also your explanation of the loss of community is profound and thank you for for sharing that with us because I think it it's it's just awful and I'm so sorry you're going through it but I am happy that you and your family are safe thank you and I do think if anyone's wondering like what can they do offering of community is probably the greatest gift just to just to tell people that you love them and that we're that we're in it yeah and if you watching at home have the means at all I have I've posted a link to verified GoFundMe page where there are ways to help the verified vetted organizations that are helping people in California hit by these fires Emily thank you so much for talking to us someone should start GoFundMe someone should start GoFundMe which is positive messaging board so that people can go in there and see you can do it we'll be right back

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