Sarah Michelle Gellar chided Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Tuesday as the Palisades Fire burned in Los Angeles.

“City of LA, you want everyone to evacuate, but you have complete gridlock and not a single traffic cop on the streets helping,” Gellar wrote in Instagram Stories tagged to the official social media accounts of the city of Los Angeles and Bass .

The Palisades Fire, driven by strong Santa Ana winds, started late Tuesday morning in the Santa Monica Mountains and quickly consumed 200 acres within an hour, growing to nearly 3,000 acres by sunset. FOX Weather reported.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar was one of many to criticize LA Mayor Karen Bass as fires raged across Los Angeles neighborhoods. (Getty Images)

Former “Dancing with the Stars” professional dancer Valentin Chmerkovskiy aired his grievances on social media Wednesday, writing: “The fifth largest economy in the world. Firefighters didn’t have enough water pressure to do their job?! Are you kidding?! The taxes.” “We pay for third world infrastructure, it’s unbelievable?!”

Sara Foster wrote on X: “We pay the highest taxes in California.” Our fire hydrants were empty. Our vegetation was overgrown and the undergrowth had not been cleared. Our reservoirs were emptied by our governor because tribal leaders wanted to save fish. Our fire department budget was cut by our mayor. But thank God drug addicts get their drug packages. @MayorOfLA @GavinNewsom RESIGN. Your extreme left-wing politics have ruined our state. And also our party.”

Celebrity fitness trainer Jillian Michaels recalled losing her home in the 2018 Woolsey fire when she went to X to criticize California’s leadership.

“Fifth largest economy in the world. Firefighters didn’t have enough water pressure to do their job?! Are you kidding?! The taxes we pay for third world infrastructure are unbelievable?!”

— Valentin Chmerkovskiy

“The mayor is apparently in Ghana,” she wrote. “The fire department’s budget has apparently been cut by 17 million. And someone made the decision not to refill some of the reservoirs – now some fire hydrants are dry. The leadership in California is beyond negligent. This is completely unacceptable.”

In another post, Michaels continued: “California Governor @GavinNewsom issues a press release admitting they knew about the insane fire danger last Sunday because he suggested fire engines. And yet just a few hours ago he called in the National Guard. Pacific.” Palisades runs out of water at 3 a.m. My family who stayed there is not a partisan problem. It is pure incompetence and misprioritization.”

The Palisades Fire ravages a neighborhood amid high winds in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Sarah Michelle Gellar and professional dancer Valentin Chmerkovskiy criticized the leadership’s response to the LA fires. (Instagram)

James Woods, who lost his home in the Palisades fire on Tuesday, wrote on

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“One doesn’t know anything about firefighting and the other can’t fill the water reservoirs,” he added. Woods posted throughout the day about how he was preparing to evacuate his home, later giving fans grim news that he had lost his home in the Pacific Palisades.

Steve Guttenberg jumped into action to help firefighters and move cars stranded on Sunset Boulevard by residents fleeing the fire, he told Fox News Digital exclusively. “It’s a bit like Zombieland, you know, there are these abandoned cars all over the street.”

Los Angeles Fire Department Officials confirmed the Palisades Fire started after 11 a.m. near the southeast side of Palisades Drive. When the fire reached approximately 200 acres, evacuation orders were issued.

Vehicles are left on the road after occupants become stuck in traffic during evacuation. (Getty Images)

Guttenberg – known for his roles in “Police Academy” and “Three Men and a Baby” – urged people who left their vehicles behind during the evacuation to also return their keys so emergency crews could get to the fire.

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“What people are doing is they’re leaving their cars and it’s a crisis and they’re not leaving their keys in their cars,” Guttenberg told Fox News Digital. “What’s happening is the fire trucks can’t get up the road because they have all these abandoned cars and they’re not able to move them. So I helped transport cars, put them on the hill and clear the path for the fire department.

“I just wanted to see what I could do to help some of my neighbors, but it’s a ghost town.”

—Steve Guttenberg

Guttenberg noted that the fire was “the largest fire we have ever seen in the Palisades. It’s huge.”

“We’ve had small fires, but this is definitely the largest, and in certain areas it’s just burning out of control,” he said. “I managed to get here, a kind of area where there is no fire. So everyone is safe and I just wanted to see what I could do to help some of my neighbors, but it’s a ghost town. Everyone is gone.” . And I think that’s what should be in a big fire like this.

WATCH: Steve Guttenberg remembers helping firefighters during the Palisades Fire.

Cars are pictured after an inferno in Pacific Palisades on January 7, 2025. (KTTV)

Reality TV star Spencer Pratt and his wife Heidi Montag lost their home in 2019 the Palisades firethey confirmed on their Snapchat accounts on Tuesday. In a series of videos “The Hills” star showed the fire quickly moving over the hill toward their property.

“Well, that doesn’t look good,” Pratt said while filming the fire on the mountain behind their house. “For the first time I saw the flames coming over. Oh, man. Okay, I’ll pack my things, I think.”

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He later posted a video from his car saying he watched their house burn down on security cameras. Pratt shared a photo of his child’s room and said it was burned in the shape of a heart.

A tanker plane crashes on the Palisades Fire. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Spencer Pratt shared pictures from his home captured by security cameras. (Spencer Pratt Snapchat)

Chris Pratt offered prayers for the evacuees and those unable to leave the fires. (Rodin Eckenroth/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images)

Chris Pratt posted on X asking people to join him in praying for “the brave firefighters who sacrificed so much to save our homes and our city.”

“Jesus protect the lives of those fighting the flames and the lives of those who could not be evacuated,” he wrote.

Former Food Network personality Sandra Lee shared a carousel of pictures from around Malibu on Tuesday before announcing Wednesday morning that she had lost her home.

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“Good morning, thank you for all your congratulations. I’m in a hotel. I don’t have a home anymore, my house is gone. It’s literally gone,” she said. “I cried all night. Thank God everyone is safe.”

“I don’t know what to say, I don’t know how to compartmentalize this, I don’t know what to do… all my stuff, all the last five years of my life. So the only thing I can do is go to work, and I’m going to go to work today like I go to work every day. And I’ll rebuild it, I don’t know how.

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