Strong winds and a lack of rain are said to have made the flames worse. A guy was arrested on suspicion of arson after people allegedly held him until police arrived.
As the infernos continue to wreak havoc on Los Angeles, a number of celebrities, including Paris Hilton, Anna Faris, Eugene Levy, and Billy Crystal, have lost their homes in recent days.
Steiner was thus taken aback to see that his house had survived the area’s consuming towering flames. When a local contractor emailed him a video of smoke and flames ripping across.
The street on Tuesday, January 7, the retired waste-management tycoon assumed his three-story house, which was empty at the time, was doomed.
“[The contractor] was watching the news reports and saw my neighbor’s house going down and told me, ‘It looks like your house is going too’,” Steiner said to the New York Post.
People then started contacting the New Orleans business tycoon to let him know that his “house was all over the news,” but not for the reason he had anticipated.
