Conan O’Brien Says His Pacific Palisades Home Was Spared by L.A. Fires After Thinking 'Our House Will Go'

Mar. 15, 2025

Conan O’Brien speaks onstage during the featured session “Conan O’Brien Must Go” during the 2024 SXSW Conference and Festivals at Austin Convention Center at Austin Convention Center on March 9, 2024 in Austin, Texas.Photo:Mat Hayward/FilmMagic

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Conan O’Brien’s house is safe from theongoing Los Angeles wildfires.

The television host, 61, revealed in the Jan. 20 episode of hisConan O’Brien Needs A Friendpodcast that his property was not damaged despite being evacuated. The episode marks the first time he has recorded the podcast since the wildfires first erupted on Jan. 7.

O’Brien said he was in a meeting with writers to discuss his upcoming gig as thehost of the 2025 Oscarswhen he got a call fromhis wife Lizaabout seeing “some smoke.”

“I remember thinking, ‘Well, we’ve been through this before.’ We’ve been evacuated. There’s also been smoke and we haven’t been evacuated,” he said. “It’s part of life in L.A., so I wasn’t thinking that much about it.”

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Liza then called to tell him that they were evacuated.

“And so I went from here to, whatever, we went to a hotel, and I went to sleep that night thinking . . . ‘I’m pretty sure that our house will go’ and it did not,” he explained.

O’Brien continued to say that the amount of people he knows who lost their homes is “stunning.”

“It’s our entire street, our whole neighborhood has just been destroyed,” Movsesian said. “It looks like it’s hard for me to look at pictures. It looks really almost apocalyptic.”

Flames illuminate the night sky as a wildfire burns across a hillside in Pacific Palisades, Calif., on Jan. 7, 2025.Jason Ryan/NurPhoto via Getty

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On Jan. 12, the event was already being called the most destructive in the history of Los Angeles County, with more than 10,000 structures destroyed, according toABC News.

PEOPLE previously reported on Jan. 16, per The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner, that there have been 27 deaths so far.

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More than 80,000 people were displaced as a result of the fires,including celebritiesLeighton Meester and Adam Brody, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Joshua Jackson, Anna Faris, Ricki Lake, Cary Elwes,Cameron Mathison,Spencer PrattandHeidi Montag, all of whom lost their homes.

Many others, such asTara Lipinski,Chrissy Teigen,Britney Spearshave shared that they were evacuated.

On Jan. 18, O’Brien shared a photo of himself standing in front of a Redondo Beach fire truck with four firefighters onInstagramand expressed his appreciation for their work.

“Just ran into these heroes in my neighborhood,” he captioned the post. “Thank you to them and all the brave firefighters who have been working tirelessly to keep us safe.”

source: people.com