Faced with the order to evacuate the Pacific Palisades district of Los Angeles, Patrick Bruel forbade his son from returning there to save anything from the incessant flames which have been ravaging the city for more than a week.
Faced with the flames, the father did not hesitate: the priority was to shelter his loved ones, even if it meant losing everything. Patrick Bruel, who saw his house in Los Angeles go up in smoke in the fires that ravaged the City of Angels, remembers his evacuation.
After leaving the city when his neighborhood was among the next threatened by the flames, his youngest son, Léon (19 years old), was still there. “He was going to the airport. I had left the day before. He said to me: 'Should I go back home, save things? Maybe there's still time,' the singer told Variety.
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“I said, ‘No way. Don’t even think about it,’” he concluded. A wise decision since a few hours later, the family lost their Californian home located in the upscale neighborhood of Pacific Palisades, not far from that of the Hallydays. “It’s a beautiful little village, a place where we felt extremely good. It’s even difficult for me to talk about it in the past tense,” confided Patrick Bruel.
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For his part, recently invited on “Europe 1”, Léon Bruel puts things into perspective. “The house was completely burned. But above all, it must be said that the most important and most serious thing is that people died,” he declared on Monday January 13. “We are obviously very sad but we are not the ones to be pitied the most. People have lost everything. »
