Studio Veteran Mia Ammer Details ‘Pure Chaos’ of Escaping Wildfire as She Mourns Enormous Loss in Pacific Palisades: ‘No Better Place to Raise a Family’
variety.comMatt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Mia Ammer had been through plenty of fire drills before. The seasoned Hollywood publicist spent a decade raising her kids in the Pacific Palisades, where blazes would often threaten her home from the hills to the north.
Historically, however, “fire had never jumped Sunset Boulevard and threatened our town,” she said. But that changed on Jan. 7, when an inferno tore through her idyllic neighborhood, just north of Santa Monica on the western edge of Los Angeles’ city border.
The Palisades fire and the devastating Eaton Fire to the east that ravaged Altadena and parts of northern Pasadena have created the horror show of wildfire destruction that the world has watched unfold in real time via nonstop news coverage.
Only two door frames and a portion of Ammer’s fireplace remain intact at the home she purchased in 2015, on Bienveneda Avenue, near the now-leveled Palisades Charter High School (where 1976’s “Carrie” was filmed).
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