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As multiple fires continue to rage in the Los Angeles area, a number of musicians have been forced to evacuate or even lost their homes. Unfortunately, the latter happened to Primus guitarist Larry "Ler" LaLonde. His bandmate, Les Claypool, broke the sad news on Instagram, sharing a photo of the burned down remains.
"All that is left of our good friend Ler Lalonde’s home," he captioned the devastating photo, which shows a chimney standing amongst a pile of rubble. "When Mother Nature gets up on her hind legs, it can be brutal. My heart hurts for him and his family."
See Claypool's emotional post below.
On Thursday (January 9), Billy Corgan revealed that he and his family were in Los Angeles and forced to "to evacuate with nowhere to go." The Smashing Pumpkins frontman shared a video he'd recorded the day before and explained that since recording the clip "we had to evacuate as a family from where we were staying."
"The situation here in Los Angeles is very overwhelming and at times chaotic but our love to the first responders who so courageously run into these situations," he added in the caption. "I have some video of the one fire that (thank God) was put out and for which it appears there was no loss of life as some homes burned and also started brush fires down a ridge; which being about 250 yards from where we were forced us to evacuate with nowhere to go."
"Praying for everyone today as hopefully this can come under control for the entire area, which is vast in scope and so full of nature," Corgan continued." The loss overall is awful and unspeakable and that is what I wish to highlight; as the fires touch every strata of society."
For evacuation orders and information on evacuation shelters, including evacuation shelters for animals, road closure information and more, see HERE.
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