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Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag suffered a devastating loss when their home burned down in the recent Pacific Palisades fire that’s raging in California.
The Hills alum, 41, shared a heartbreaking video on TikTok that showed flames enveloping the area and wrote, “Nightmare came true,” in the early hours of Wednesday, January 8.
Spencer, who shared the home with his wife, Heidi, 38, and their two sons, Ryker and Gunner, had been documenting the fire on his social media accounts. In a TikTok video shared on Tuesday, January 7, he gave viewers a look at the fire blazing in the area.
“We got a fire going on behind the house here, say a prayer for the Palisades here, there’s the town, there is the fire…” Spencer said as he panned the camera to show fans how close it was. “OK, that’s pretty black smoke, [I] should go home and start packing up the house.”
A few hours later, he updated fans with the news that he and Heidi had lost their house.
“Update: I’m watching our house burn down on the security cameras,” Spencer said in a clip he shared to his Instagram Stories.
There are currently three fires burning in Los Angeles at the time of publication, according to NBC News. The fire in the Pacific Palisades began around 10:30 a.m. PST on Tuesday and had quickly devoured almost 3,000 acres due to 80 mph wind gusts in the area. It prompted evacuations of around 30,000 people in the area.
Later that same day, another fire sparked in Eaton around 6:30 p.m. PST and quickly took over 1,000 acres. Hours later, a third fire began to burn in the Hurst area in Sylmar, California.
By 5:30 a.m. PST on January 8, the fire in Eaton had nearly doubled in size and a mandatory evacuation was put in place for 52,000 residents and 21,000 structures. Another 47,000 residents had additional evacuation warnings.
An update about the Pacific Palisades fire was given in the early hours of January 8.
“2921 acres 0 percent containment. Extreme fire behavior, short & long-range spotting, continues to challenge firefighting efforts for the Palisades Fire. Wind gusts up to 60 MPH are expected to continue through Thursday,” the Los Angeles County Fire Department shared in a message via X.
Los Angeles Councilwoman Traci Park also gave an update regarding the fire in the Pacific Palisades.
“It is an absolute miracle that we do not have any reported fatalities at this point,” Park, 48, told Today on January 8. “Until the sun comes up and we can get assets back in the air safely, we won’t really know how much of the Palisades is still standing today.”
She added that the winds have caused issues and the fire department hasn’t been able to dump water on the area and said that authorities are “overwhelmed at this point, this is a lifesaving operation.”
“I really want to commend neighbors in the area for their swift response and compliance with local orders. This was a fire that grew and moved very, very quickly with wind conditions as well as all of the dry conditions, it’s been at least eight months since we’ve had rain in this area,” Park explained.
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