Faced with the flames, 24 people lost their lives according to a provisional report, more than 12,000 homes were destroyed and more than 150,000 residents were forced to evacuate the areas targeted by the most violent fire in the history of the California. “I wanted to say that it is not material or financial things that collapse us,” continued Léon Bruel. “But the emotional part, everything that you can’t redeem and that has no price.”
Patrick Bruel thinks “of the victims”
Little brother of Oscar (21 years old), Léon Bruel is the son of Patrick Bruel and Amanda Sthers. Also based in Los Angeles, in the Hollywood district, the writer was able to evacuate in time from her own Californian house which would have a priori been spared. For his part, the interpreter of “Break the voice” spoke about the loss of his home.
“The only assurance to which we cannot subscribe is that of emotion, of memories, of objects, of perfumes… and of the silences which surrounded this house which goes up in smoke”, he wrote on Instagram, Thursday January 9. “She was so important to us for 8 years… Oscar was 13 years old Léon 11 when we arrived. This evening I necessarily think of the victims, of my friends, of my neighbors, and of all those who lost everything in this disaster like in so many others in recent years. God bless our firefighters everywhere and always.
