After having to leave his Pacific Palisades house amid the fire ravaging Los Angeles, Ben Affleck returned to find a large military vehicle outside the house Thursday.
Photos published by TMZ show a man dressed in defense tiredness and a khaki-colored Humvee parked right outside the 52-year-old Oscar winner’s Brentwood house.
The “Gone Girl” sun was seen driving by calmly, though it ’s questionable whether he engaged instantly with anyone outside the home, which sits toward the top of the evacuation area. The National Guard was deployed in the area to help next month.
Earlier in the week, the channel reported FBI officials and sheriff deputies went to Affleck’s house after a personal aircraft and firefighting plane collided, damaging the latter.
Affleck, who settled his marriage from Jennifer Lopez earlier this month, was forced to flee his home amid the fatal fires and nose to the house of ex-wife Jennifer Garner, with whom he shares three children: Violet, 19, Seraphina, 16, and Samuel, 12.
The Walls flames, now 31 % contained, has killed at least eight persons and burned through nearly 24,000 acres. The Eaton fire, which is 65 % contained, has ravaged over 14,000 acres and taken the lives of at least 16.
As of Friday evening, at least 27 individuals have been confirmed dead as a result of the many fire that began devastating the L. A. region last month. On Thursday, Yale Climate Connections reported the future death toll is expected to be far higher, “once the health consequences from the harmful fumes from the flames are fully realized. ”
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