Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan shares footage from LA wildfires: “The fires touch every strata of society”

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Smashing Pumpkins‘ frontman Billy Corgan has shared footage of the LA wildfires that have forced over 150,000 residents and more out of their homes.The ‘1979’ singer begins his video by showing the view from his balcony.

The giant gray clouds, Corgan clarified, aren’t actually clouds but smoke from the ongoing destructive wildfires that have claimed the homes of hundreds of thousands in the state.“I wanted to kind of give everyone a little message today, I’m feeling better.

Thank you for all your well wishes. But, um, yeah, I’m out here in LA right now, and it’s kind of the apocalypse. I think about 1000 structures built burned last night.

People I know I’ve had to evacuate and it’s a pretty intense situation,” he began.A post shared by William Patrick Corgan (@billycorgan)He continued: “We’re safe where we are, or we’re ostensibly in the zone of concern, but it’s still at a pretty good distance.