‘Heroes’ star Milo Ventimiglia chokes up after watching house burn down in LA wildfires: “Your heart just breaks”

nme.com:

Heroes and This Is Us actor Milo Ventimiglia has choked up during a live interview while discussing watching his house burn down in the Los Angeles wildfires.The wildfires that began on Tuesday (January 7) have quickly morphed into five concurrent fires in separate neighbourhoods, and has forced over 180,000 residents and counting to evacuate from their homes.

At the time of writing, 10 deaths have been confirmed, per NBC News.Thousands of homes have been burned to the ground, as have schools, restaurants and business in the area.

One actor who has suffered from the raging flames is Milo Ventimiglia, who has revealed in a chat with CBS News that he watched his house burn down after getting himself and his heavily pregnant wife Jarah Mariano to safety.Ventimiglia and the CBS crew drove to the spot where the actor’s house stood just days ago to talk about the ordeal.

When asked how he felt being there, Ventimiglia said while fighting back tears: “Heavy.”“It hits you so quick. You start thinking about all the memories in the different parts of the house and whatnot.