At least 130,000 residents are under evacuation orders as wildfires burn across Los Angeles County, destroying more than 2,000 structures and causing at least five deaths. Emmanuel Acho opened the Thursday edition of The Facility revealing that he had to evacuate his home on Wednesday night because of the fire in the Hollywood Hills area. Producers of the show have had to evacuate their houses as well, and some were working from home on Wednesday. Acho articulated that akin to a real football facility, real-world problems sometimes enter the environment rather than laughs and jokes.
“There have been fires, there has been devastation, there has been catastrophe, there has been calamity,” Acho said. “So please send your thoughts, send your prayers to any loved ones, any family and any strangers that you might even consider thinking about in the LA, the Hollywood Hills, the Palisades, Pasadena, Malibu, and all of those areas.”
Acho shared a video he took as he was driving home where he explained that Los Angeles was “literally on fire” and showed a view of the flames from afar. Before the program transitioned into discussion surrounding football, he re-emphasized that the show discusses sports and has fun but said that he wanted the show to recognize what is taking place in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Moreover, he acknowledged that moving on from the topic was not an easy transition to make but that he would nonetheless try to do so.
As firefighters try to contain five different fires in the region, the sports and entertainment world has been affected in a variety of ways. The Los Angeles Kings postponed their Wednesday night home game at Crypto.com Arena, the taping for late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live! was postponed and the Critics Choice Awards ceremony was moved to later in the month. Moreover, Los Angeles Lakers head coach JJ Redick revealed that his family evacuated their home. LA Clippers forward Kawhi Leonard has also stepped away from the team to be with his family amid these cataclysmic outbreaks.
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