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- Steve Guttenberg says he had to break into an elderly couple’s home and carry them out to save them from the 2025 Palisades fire.
- The Police Academy star instructed Maury Povich {that a} “big fight” over getting them out led to the altruistic break-in, but additionally to the couple saying they “hated” him.
- Guttenberg beforehand instructed EW about his heroics throughout the fire within the coastal enclave west of Los Angeles, saying, “In a crisis, always remember that you are, you’re part of a community.”
Though he is been candid about fairly a number of, a few of Steve Guttenberg‘s most heroic tales from the peak of the 2025 Palisades fire are nonetheless untold — till now.
The Police Academy star joined Maury Povich on Monday’s episode of his new On Par podcast to focus on his ranging profession, philosophical outlook on moviemaking, and most harrowingly, his experiences throughout one of many twin blazes that rocked Los Angeles final yr.
“I have a really funny story that I just remembered the other day,” Guttenberg instructed the tabloid TV legend. “There was a couple inside their house, and a friend of mine texted me and said, ‘This elderly couple’s in their house, and not leaving.'”
Guttenberg sprang into motion, not figuring out simply how robust this explicit rescue was going to be.
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“So I get the address, I find it, I get up there. And I actually took somebody’s car that wasn’t my car, because my car was way down, I couldn’t find it,” he stated.
Guttenberg beforehand detailed a number of the methods he helped his neighbors within the coastal enclave west of Los Angeles, whereas the fires nonetheless burned final January. “What happened was the fire got so close and everybody was trying to get out that it became sort of a little bit of a panic,” Guttenberg told Entertainment Weekly on the time.
The 30-year Palisades resident famous how deserted vehicles littered the streets because the flames encroached. “I knew that we needed emergency vehicles through there, and I wasn’t the only one. But I started just moving cars,” he stated. It was a kind of vehicles he drove to the elderly couple’s home.
“I knock on the window and they’re watching TV and they go, ‘Hey, get away.’ I go, ‘You’ve got to leave, the fire is coming,'” he instructed Povich. The couple remained obstinate, which led to a “big fight” and in the end, to Guttenberg resorting to drastic measures.
“I had to break into their house through a window, you know, fall on the kitchen floor, glass everywhere, get up there. The guy’s like, ‘I’m going to call the cops on you.’ I go, ‘That’s why I’m here, call the cops. You’ve got to leave!'” Guttenberg remembered.
The couple’s resistance to the rescue continued, forcing Guttenberg to “unlock the door, pick them up, and carry them outside so one of the fire trucks could come by and get them.” Laughing, Guttenberg mirrored, “They hated me. I mean, the woman’s hitting me in the head. I go, ‘Lady, you can’t stay in this house. Your house is going to burn down!’ And it probably did.”
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All instructed, the Palisades fire destroyed upwards of 6,800 structures. Along with the Eaton fire that burned by way of the Altadena space in northeast Los Angeles, loss estimates prolong as excessive as $164 billion.
Many well-known figures misplaced their houses, from Julia Louis-Dreyfus, to Ricki Lake, to Leighton Meester and Adam Brody. But residents like Guttenberg regarded out for his or her neighbors. Even Dick Van Dyke said he was saved thanks to neighbors that bodily carried him from his home.
You can watch the remainder of Guttenberg’s interview on the On Par With Maury Povich podcast above.
