Bill Hader volunteers to help cover LA fires, discovers home was saved
Bill Hader gave a local LA news crew covering the LA fires quite a surprise.
On Thursday morning, a team from LA’s ABC 7 news was out in the Pacific Palisades — one of the areas hardest hit by this week’s wildfires — when they came across a man trying to return to his home after the blaze tore through the area earlier this week.
His face obscured by a mask (air quality in LA has been horrendous since the fires began raging), the man told the group of journalists he wanted to ride with them and help report on the disaster.
The news team was taken aback when the seemingly random civilian turned out to be actor Bill Hader.
Reporter Josh Haskell, who was among the ABC 7 crew, broke the story in a post on X (formerly known as Twitter) Friday morning, describing it as an experience unique to the City of Angels.
“An only in LA moment on Thursday at road block for #PalisadesFire,” Haskell captioned a photo of Hader giving a peace sign while wearing his face mask.
“Resident trying to gain access came up to news van as if he was part of our team, wanted to help cover, ride with us. Then, he pulled down his mask, smiled and it was Bill Hader!” the reporter wrote, adding that the “SNL” alum “couldn’t have been nicer!”
A rep for Hader confirmed to The Post that Hader’s house was spared by the fires, and he was able to return home briefly on Thursday.
Almost every other house on Hader’s Pacific Palisades street burned to the ground, according to Daily Mail.
The Emmy winner bought the clean-lined contemporary home for $4.2 million home in 2019. Measuring approximately 4,300 square feet, the two-story residence boasts five bedrooms with four full and two half bathrooms.
Photos of the house taken on Thursday show the house to be almost entirely unscathed, with only some bushes and trees in the front yard appearing singed by flames.
The home of one of Hader’s neighbors was also left standing. Houses on the other side and behind Hader’s were not so lucky. The buildings were reduced to no more than rubble.
The Pacific Palisades was completely leveled by the fire that began ravaging the idyllic coastal community on Friday.
In addition to Hader, numerous other celebrities called the Palisades home and were forced to flee when evacuation orders were issued. Several lost their homes.
However, others, like the “Barry” star, were lucky.
Tom Hanks’ modern clifftop estate miraculously survived the fires.
As of Friday, over 5,000 structures have been destroyed and more than 200,000 Angelenos have been evacuated as the Palisades, Eaton and Kenneth fires (among others) remain burning. Local authorities have said that at least 11 people are dead as a result of the wildfires.
