Vice President Kamala Harris’s Los Angeles home is under threat as wildfires continue to devastate Southern California. The Brentwood neighborhood, where Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, own a $5 million property, was evacuated on Jan. 7 due to the fast-moving Palisades Fire.
The VP’s L.A. Home
“No one was in her home at the time,” Harris spokesman Ernie Apreza shared on social media. “She and the Second Gentleman are praying for the safety of their fellow Californians, the heroic first responders, and Secret Service personnel.”
The fires currently buring are: the Palisades Fire, the Eaton Fire, the Hurst Fire, the Sunset Fire, and the Lidia Fire, reports NBC.
The fires have caused the death of five so far and burned nearly 3,000 acres, destroying over 1,000 structures and forcing the evacuation of more than 80,000 residents, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. The Eaton and Hurst fires are burning through thousands of acres.
President Joe Biden, who was also in Los Angeles for a planned speech, canceled his address to focus on the crisis. “The Biden-Harris Administration has been in constant communication with California Governor Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, and other local officials,” the White House stated.
The vice president’s home, a 3,500-square-foot property with a pool, has faced wildfire threats before. During the Getty Fire in 2019, the property narrowly avoided damage, Town And Country reported. The house, purchased by Emhoff in 2012 and later transferred to a joint trust with Harris, is located in a celebrity-heavy Brentwood neighborhood near the Getty Center, where celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow and LeBron James have multimillion-dollar mansions.
Harris was in Washington, D.C., attending the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter on Jan. 9.
