There's no reprieve from the California wildfires sweeping through towns as different as the star-filled oceanside enclave of Malibu and the modest communities nearby and in the state's north.
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Lady Gaga, Martin Sheen and Kim Kardashian West were among the celebrities who joined thousands of others in evacuating from the affluent coastal city that is as well-known as its residents. The stars went online to share their own distress and dismay for others as the fate of many properties remained unknown on Saturday.
"I am thinking so deeply for everyone who is suffering today from these abominable fires & grieving the loss of their homes or loved ones," Lady Gaga tweeted. "I'm sitting here with many of you wondering if my home will burst into flames. All we can do is pray together & for each other. God Bless You."
Shannen Doherty, who'd been out of town when the fire broke out, said online that friends staying at her Malibu house evacuated safely with her dogs. It's likely her house burned, she said, but she expressed gratitude to firefighters "putting their lives on the line for all of us" and sympathy for others affected by the fire.
Sheen (The West Wing, Apocalypse Now), interviewed by a TV station on the beach on Friday night after fleeing his home, said the fire was the worst he's ever seen. He said he expects his house was destroyed.
The interview occurred after his son, actor Charlie Sheen, tweeted that he'd been unable to contact his father, and the Los Angeles Fox affiliate KTTV tracked him down. Martin Sheen gave a shoutout to his family to let them know he and his wife, Janet, were safe and planned to sleep in their car by the beach.
The status of Martin Sheen's home was unknown Saturday morning.
"Beverly Hills, 90210" star Doherty said her "heart is ripped apart" by the loss of a Malibu home where she and husband Kurt Iswarienko were married in 2011, posting on Instagram a wedding-day photo of the smiling couple on a tree-lined path at the property apparently owned by a friend.
The blaze started Thursday night and by Friday had pushed toward Malibu and the Pacific Ocean, prompting evacuations in Malibu, Calabasas, Agoura Hills and other nearby areas. Authorities said Saturday that two people were found dead in the fire zone and at least 150 homes burned .
In Northern California, the small inland town of Paradise was virtually wiped out by a fast-moving blaze that destroyed more than 6700 buildings and claimed 11 lives as of Saturday.
Although the fatalities overshadowed the loss of property, Malibu's fame inevitably called attention to the status of its multimillion-dollar homes, including one made famous in ABC's reality dating series The Bachelor.
Alyssa Milano, who on Friday tweeted that her house was "in jeopardy" but she had gotten needed help to evacuate her horses and that her children were safe, posted Saturday that she was waiting to hear of her home's fate.
Also left waiting was Caitlyn Jenner, whose hilltop home appeared intact when it was shot by a photographer for The Associated Press on Saturday morning. Jenner's representative noted that the Olympic gold medalist wouldn't know the extent of any damage to the home until she was allowed to return to it.
Kardashian West posted video on Instagram of an area on fire with a message "Pray for Calabasas". She said she landed back home, spent one hour packing and evacuated shortly afterward.
Australian Associated Press