All My Children alum Cameron Mathison gave advice on what not to say to someone who lost his home in the Los Angeles fires after losing his own home.
“When you share or comment about someone who has lost their home to these fires, and everything they own, everyone has a very different relationship with their home,” the TV star said in a video shared on Instagram.
Mathison lost his home in the LA burns which started on January 7 and are still burning.
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Cameron Mathison shared advice on what not to say to people who lost their homes to the LA fires. (Getty Images; Cameron Mathison/Instagram)
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“Some people generally move a lot. Some people may have moved to LA, but have all their childhood stuff at home with their parents. And some people may have lived in that house for a long time, and it really represents a lifetime of memories , and it’s where their children grew up and everything they owned – everything they owned – was in it,” the “General Hospital” star explained, “from their childhood to their children’s childhood, and it represents a physical object that resembles love and memories, and it could mean much more.”
“Keep that in mind when you share something, and you might say, ‘It’s just a house,’ or ‘It’s just stuff, and you can replace that.'”
“For some people that may be true, but for many people it is much more than that,” he added.
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Cameron Mathison left behind ‘valuable’ items before his home was destroyed by the fires in Southern California. (Getty Images)
“Keep that in mind when you share something, and you might say, ‘It’s just a house,’ or ‘It’s just stuff, and you can replace that.’ That may be true for some people, but for many people it is much more than that.”
Mathison previously revealed he left behind some “valuable” items when he evacuated his home due to the Eaton fire. The actor only grabbed passports, birth certificates and photo albums because he “didn’t really believe” he would lose the house.
“Unfortunately, I left behind some valuable films where the children were very, very young and films that you can’t replace,” Mathison said Entertainment tonight. “If I really thought the house was going to collapse, I would have taken so much more.”
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Mathison remembered his house burning down while he was watching the news. “I was just sitting there, it was probably 6 o’clock in the morning, and I had to go there,” he continued, saying he bought a mask and goggles before heading to his neighborhood. “It looked like a war zone.”
The actor realized the family home was “completely gone” when he arrived. ‘It was really, really decimated. There is nothing. Less than nothing. It just all burned to ashes.”
Cameron Mathison and his estranged wife Vanessa Mathison lost their home in the Eaton Fire. (Paul Archuleta/Getty Images)
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Trees sway in high winds as the Eaton Fire burns buildings on January 8. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
Southern California firefighters continued to battle the Palisades and Eaton Fires Wednesday, killing at least 28 people and destroying more than 14,000 structures since they erupted on Jan. 7. Containment of the Palisades fire reached 68% and the Eaton fire 91%.
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is investigating the causes of the fires but has not released any findings.
Cars are left charred at a dealership in the aftermath of the Jan. 10 Eaton fire. (Jae C. Hong/AP)
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The Associated Press contributed to this report.
