Conan O'Brien Says His Pacific Palisades Home Was Spared In First Podcast Since LA Wildfires

Hey, I’m Ryan Pearson. I’m an entertainment video manager for the Associated Press in Los Angeles. And um I am back at my house in Al Sadina for the first time since the day of the fires. And this is heading into our The back of the house, uh. This was my daughter’s room. She would be. In here, uh, playing Roblox with her next door neighbors. I had been out covering, helping to cover the Palisades wildfires on Tuesday morning, and when I drove back to home, I saw orange, *** little orange haze of smoke, uh, on my way home, and when I pulled up at home, um, *** colleague texted me and said there’s another fire in Aldina. I went out to check on it and see what it looked like. I came back home and told my wife to pack up and we packed for probably 1 hour, which felt like both 5 minutes and 24 hours and we’re kind of walking around in circles trying to figure out what do you pack, what do you not pack, and fortunately I think we got *** lot more out than most our we. *** 13 year old daughter who was away on *** school trip this week which ended up being very fortuitous for us that she didn’t have to go through this. On the day of the fire, I drove from the home that we had evacuated to back up to Altadena and started as soon as I got off the freeway and started to take our my route home, there were homes on fire by pretty much. knew then that our home would be gone. My wife is *** home stager and so we had *** whole bunch of really lovely decor. She had um put, uh, she had gotten an inheritance after her father died and had uh we spent it on uh remodeling and and modernizing the house which was built in 1958. Um, and so it’s hitting especially hard for her. Uh, she had the remodel of the bathroom included, uh, concrete, uh, sort of pink concrete, and she had *** picture of her dad in there. Um, her dad was *** concrete contractor, and, uh, she had sort of made, made the home, uh, totally perfect in the way that that she wanted to live it, and it was, it was *** beautiful home for our family and we were planning to be living here forever. I’m now in our backyard and the ping pong table survived. So what’s next for us is we, you know, we reached out to our insurance and they’ve been very responsive and that’s been amazing, but we were, we were underinsured for what the house was and hadn’t hadn’t updated our insurance since we moved in and we’d done that big renovation. So um uh that we’ll, we’ll figure that out, but there are many, many people who are much less fortunate than than we are. And then There’s the washer dryer you can see behind me and Um,

Conan O’Brien says his Pacific Palisades home was spared in first podcast since LA wildfires

Conan O’Brien is one of the lucky few whose Pacific Palisades home is still standing after the LA wildfires, but he says he knows many who’ve been affected by the devastation, including his podcast co-host Sona Movsesian.Video above: Journalist Ryan Pearson visits site of his home, which was destroyed by wildfiresIn the latest episode of “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” – his first episode since the fires broke out earlier this month – O’Brien opened up about evacuating, sharing that he first learned that there was a fire in his neighborhood while he was at his office meeting with writers to go over the Oscars, which he’s set to host in March.”And I got a phone call from my wife saying, ‘Well, there’s some smoke,'” he recounted.O’Brien said he didn’t think much of it at first. He and his family have been through this before, he said, adding that monitoring nearby wildfire smoke is “part of life” in the fire-prone region.His family was later put under mandatory evacuation and checked into a hotel. As of last Thursday, when the podcast episode was recorded, O’Brien said that he had not yet returned home.”I went to sleep that night thinking, because we live in the Palisades, I just remember thinking, ‘I’m pretty sure that our house will go,'” he said. His house was among those in the Palisades that did not burn down, but, he said, “just the number of people I’ve heard from, people I know who lost houses is stunning.”Movsesian, who is also O’Brien’s assistant and a mother of two, was among them. Movesian’s home burned down in the Eaton Fire, which ripped through the East Los Angeles neighborhood of Altadena.”It’s our entire street, our whole neighborhood has just been destroyed,” Movsesian said. “It looks really almost apocalyptic. There’s just nothing there.”Several wildfires tore through Los Angeles earlier this month, with the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire being the two largest. Tens of thousands of acres and thousands of structures burned in both fires. As of Monday, 27 people have died, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner and fire officials.The Palisades Fire is the most destructive to ever occur in Los Angeles County, according to CalFire data. As of Monday, it is 59% contained and burned 23,713 acres, according to Cal Fire.

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Video above: Journalist Ryan Pearson visits site of his home, which was destroyed by wildfires

In the latest episode of “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” – his first episode since the fires broke out earlier this month – O’Brien opened up about evacuating, sharing that he first learned that there was a fire in his neighborhood while he was at his office meeting with writers to go over the Oscars, which he’s set to host in March.

“And I got a phone call from my wife saying, ‘Well, there’s some smoke,'” he recounted.

O’Brien said he didn’t think much of it at first. He and his family have been through this before, he said, adding that monitoring nearby wildfire smoke is “part of life” in the fire-prone region.

His family was later put under mandatory evacuation and checked into a hotel. As of last Thursday, when the podcast episode was recorded, O’Brien said that he had not yet returned home.

“I went to sleep that night thinking, because we live in the Palisades, I just remember thinking, ‘I’m pretty sure that our house will go,'” he said. His house was among those in the Palisades that did not burn down, but, he said, “just the number of people I’ve heard from, people I know who lost houses is stunning.”

Movsesian, who is also O’Brien’s assistant and a mother of two, was among them. Movesian’s home burned down in the Eaton Fire, which ripped through the East Los Angeles neighborhood of Altadena.

“It’s our entire street, our whole neighborhood has just been destroyed,” Movsesian said. “It looks really almost apocalyptic. There’s just nothing there.”

Several wildfires tore through Los Angeles earlier this month, with the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire being the two largest. Tens of thousands of acres and thousands of structures burned in both fires. As of Monday, 27 people have died, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner and fire officials.

The Palisades Fire is the most destructive to ever occur in Los Angeles County, according to CalFire data. As of Monday, it is 59% contained and burned 23,713 acres, according to Cal Fire.

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