‘CSI: Miami’s Emily Procter Mourns “Close Community” Amid Palisades Fire

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With wildfires burning across Southern California, Emily Procter recently shared her grief over potentially losing her home.

After evacuating her home in the Pacific Palisades, the CSI: Miami alum opened up about the “feeling and close community” as she questioned how she and her neighbors will more forward in the aftermath. “Selfishly, I wanted to be here to say we loved our neighborhood, and we still do,” Procter explained on CNN. “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.” She expressed her gratitude for the local fire station and first responders. “They’re as much apart of our neighborhood as anyone, and I know what they’re having to do now must be extraordinarily difficult,” she said.

Procter continued to open up about her tight-knit community. “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,” she continued. “I have an across-the-street neighbor who is pregnant and one who 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.