Joe Landau and Jane Seymour
Michael Tullberg/Getty ImagesLike the Los Angeles wildfires continue to ravage the city and surroundings, actor Joe Landau is grateful for his ex Dr. Quinn, female doctor costar Jane Seymoursupport.
“The Lando family is intact. All of us, our dogs and our two birds, fortunately, there are angels in this world,” Lando, 63, said on Saturday, January 11, Instagram video revealing his house burned to the ground in the flames. “We’re left with nothing but each other. My friend Jane Seymour let us come to her house and opened it to us without any hesitation and we thank God (she) gave us a place to come and sleep.
A series of forest fires broke out in the Pacific Palisades and other surrounding Los Angeles neighborhoods on Tuesday, January 7, continuing to ravage thousands of acres of property. At least 16 people have died and tens of thousands of residents have fled their homes under mandatory evacuation orders, according to local authorities.
Lando and Seymour, 73. played love interests on Dr. Quinn, female doctor between 1993 and 1998 In the show, Seymour stars as Dr. Michael Quinn, who works in Colorado Springs after the Civil War, while Lando plays Byron Sully. In his announcement on Saturday, Lando detailed his evacuation experience.
Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for American Ballet Theater Jane Seymour is thankful for her safety after her home was destroyed by the California wildfires last week. “I’m so grateful, I’m incredibly relieved,” Seymour, 73, told Us Weekly exclusively at the American Ballet Theater’s annual benefit in Los Angeles on Monday, Dec. 16. “It’s interesting, you kind of have (…)
“The power just came on for the first time in three days,” Landau said Saturday, noting that Seymour’s neighborhood has also been affected by wildfires. “There was no gas and you can’t drink the water and you can’t breathe the air because everything is poisonous. I’ve never been through anything like this. It is indescribable.”
He continued: “You see people on TV going through these things and you think, ‘Oh my God, this must be a terrible thing. Thank god it’s not me. And now we are those people. If it was just us, I’d be fine with it, but they all are. That’s it and I’m just devastated and heartbroken for everyone.”
Joe Landau and Jane Seymour
CBSLando broke down in tears in his social media video, reflecting on “all the people we know who don’t have houses anymore.”
“There are a lot of rich people in my neighborhood, but it’s not the majority of this neighborhood. Most are just hardworking people (who have) lived there for generations,” he said. “My wife’s parents live down the street or do. They they lost their house after 40 or so years. Our house wasn’t big or fancy, but it was our home. I worked so hard on it. Whenever I wasn’t acting, I was working on it, trying to stay out of trouble and save money.
Los Angeles has witnessed a frightening natural weather phenomenon – and its star community has been hit hard. An extreme storm driven by Santa Ana gusts sparked fast-burning brush fires around 10 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 7, with drivers on Sunset Boulevard and Palisades Drive abandoning their cars to seek safety, according to (…)
In addition to their family’s houses, Lando noted that his children’s school was also completely destroyed by the fires. (He is married to a husband Kirsten Barlow since 1997 and share four children.)
“It’s all gone,” Lando added tearfully. “And there is no rich or poor, black or white, red or blue. This fire is evil and will kill everything.
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