Oscars push back nominations announcement amid wildfires

With ALL due respect during Hollywood’s season of celebration, I hope any of the networks televising the upcoming awards will seriously consider NOT televising them and donating the revenue they would have gathered to victims of the fires and the firefighters,

“Hacks” star Jean Smart, a recent Globe winner, wrote on Instagram

We will get through this together and bring a sense of healing to our global film community,

vowed Bill Kramer, academy chief executive, and Janet Yang, academy president

I’m not sure how people are going to feel about getting dressed up and when they just lost everything,

said Knight of the Oscars

In Los Angeles and California, we don’t know hurricanes. But, imagining a dry hurricane and thinking about what they went through and their lives on the line. From the air, we could see people on the ground clearing brush and doing everything that they needed to prevent the next tragedy,

the mayor remarked

We understand that our residents want to go back to their homes, but this is a disaster area,

Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said

We want to begin to think about how we rebuild the massive destruction that I saw from the air. We don’t want people burdened by red tape and bureaucracy. So, my executive directive addresses that,

Bass noted

Life-threatening and destructive and widespread winds are already here,

Los Angeles City Fire Chief Kristin Crowley warned residents

The massive, massive destruction is unimaginable until you actually see it,

she recalled to reporters in a Tuesday news briefing

It is still very dangerous for the next 24 hours, so we’re keeping a very close eye."

He urged people to be on guard, saying

This operation continues. Not easy work. The good news was that no other remains were found yesterday. Hopefully that doesn’t happen today,

he said

Don't get lured into a false sense of security because we've had a very passive fire season,

Smith said ominously

Everyone that we know lived in the Palisades,

says Hill

We heard lots of sirens going by, and one fire truck was just driving really slowly near where we were,

says Hill

I’d always imagined that the earthquake would do us in,

says Comey, who lives with and cares for his disabled parents

There’s no money in the budget to cover insurance,

he says

My friends and I talk about it all the time, like we can’t imagine growing up somewhere else. It was just picture perfect,

she says

I remember seeing the entire Canyon lit up and feeling very sad for the wildlands and people in the vicinity,

she says

You just spend your whole life accumulating certain things that mean something to you, and in 12 hours, it's all gone,

he says

My job is still there when they open,

she says

We were on the freeway driving home, speeding, trying to see if we could get back home before the fire hit it,

she says