‘Oh Wow, It Hits You’: Fox’s Leslie Marshall On ‘How Fast’ She And Family Had to Evacuate From LA Fire
Fox News contributor Leslie Marshall called into Outnumbered on Wednesday to recall her experience evacuating her home the night before as fires threatened her Pasadena community.
“Well, right now on the phone with us is Fox News contributor Leslie Marshall, who has evacuated from her home in Pasadena because of the Eaton Fire. And Leslie, I’m reading here that your home is not far from the fire’s epicenter. Our prayers always with everyone out there. Now, first person from you, you got a knock at the door in the middle of the night?” Harris Faulkner began.
“Well, wasn’t exactly like that, but we are as close to the epicenter as my son could throw a football to it. It was exactly behind the house across the street from ours. And Harris, I have to tell you, you know, I’ve lived in California since the end of 1999 to 2000. I’ve heard about fires. I’ve seen fires, I’ve seen smoke,” Marshall replied, adding:
You know, we’ve gone to the coast during the Bobcat fire, which was miles from our home. One of the things I want to impress upon people is how fast this happens. I can’t even explain. I literally felt like I was in a live-action film. It is so surreal. We were outside moving some of our furniture… to make sure it doesn’t blow around, break windows, break the furniture, end up in a neighbor’s yard, you know, hurt anyone.
So we were just like, you know, tying things down, moving things closer to the house. And my son just said, Mom, look, and there’s this is huge, huge cloud of smoke coming up from behind my neighbor’s house. And I said, my God, something in the neighbor’s house is on fire. And then we saw the orange glow, which would have been in the canyon or the hillside above the Canyon. And I was home with my kids and my dog and… my husband was at work and I just like, we got to get the heck out of here. And the police and firefighters up and down the street. I ran up to police. I said, do we need to evacuate? And they said, not yet, because you’re on the east side of the street.
And I’m thinking, that’s close. I’m going to get out of here anyway. So I got in the house, were blowing out all the candles because it was pitch black, because we had had, you know, a second power outage yesterday, one in the day, then one at night. And, you know, I said to the kids, I said, you know what, let’s just prepare to get out. And I swear to God, it was like 20 seconds after the police told me, you don’t have to evacuate, that they’re like, get out, get out now, with the bullhorn and the people banging on the doors. We’re like, where’s the dog? Where’s the leash?
Marshall concluded, saying, “My kids are going to kill me for saying this on TV, but, you know, they’re crying… After we got to the hotel, I started to think, oh God, the cassette with my dad’s voice on it, you know, my mother’s engagement ring, my grandmother’s engagement ring, our wedding album. I know they’re just things, but oh wow, it hits you.”
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