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Leonardo DiCaprio has pledged $1 million to foundations and organizations dealing with the Los Angeles fires. “The Los Angeles wildfires are devastating our city,” the actor wrote Wednesday on his Instagram Stories. The donation, made in partnership with Re:wild’s Rapid Response Program, will “support both urgent needs and post-fire recovery …

Jimmy Kimmel Live halted its tapings last week as wildfires began ravaging multiple areas of Los Angeles. The show has yet to return to air, but in the meantime its Hollywood backlot is being used as a donation center to collect essential resources for those impacted by the fires. “Fellow …

Following the wildfires engulfing Los Angeles area homes and causing mass evacuations, Tyler Perry took to Instagram to express his frustration with home insurers that did not renew policies ahead of the natural disaster. The Madea franchise director described the “gut-wrenching” feeling of watching a daughter use a garden hose …

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is extending its Oscar nomination voting and moved the date back for its nominations announcement further due to the due to the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles. It announced on Monday that voting is now extended to Friday, Jan. 17, with nominations …

For more than six years, filmmaker Gabriel Kirkpatrick Mann embedded with a crew of wildland firefighters in California whose expertise is working with large, high-priority fires. Referred to as Hotshots, these specialists, managed by a band of agencies including the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management, undergo intensive training …

The Weeknd has postponed the release of his upcoming album, Hurry Up Tomorrow, and canceled his Rose Bowl Stadium concert following the relentless wildfires that are decimating the Los Angeles area. He announced that he pushed back his album release date from Jan. 24 to Jan. 31, and canceled his …

The Palisades fire, which started the morning of Jan. 7 and is the largest of the four blazes ravaging Los Angeles County, has moved east, forcing evacuations in Brentwood and parts of Encino. On Saturday, the fire spread to Mandeville Canyon. The flames’ direction headed into “a heavily populated area …

Sen. Adam Schiff is asking for an independent commission to look into the response to the devastating wildfires destroying large areas of Los Angeles. “For now, let’s focus on putting out these fires, saving lives, saving property, and then, let’s do the full analysis of what went wrong,” the California …

Miley Cyrus, whose home in Malibu burned down in a wildfire in 2018, wrote that her “soul aches” for those impacted by the blazes currently sprawling the Los Angeles area. On Instagram Cyrus re-posted an image of the charred remains of her Malibu house, which burned down in the Woolsey …

The Palisades fire, which started the morning of Jan. 7 and is the largest of the four blazes ravaging Los Angeles County, has moved east, forcing evacuations in Brentwood and parts of Encino. On Saturday, the fire spread to Mandeville Canyon. The flames’ direction headed into “a heavily populated area …