PARIS (AP) — George Clooney’s family has been forced to evacuate their home in southeastern France as a wildfire burned nearby, his agent said Thursday.
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The Hollywood star spoke of the event in a letter to Didier Bremond, the mayor of the town of Brignoles, 55 miles east of Marseille, publicist Guido Gotz told The Associated Press in an email.
Addressed “Dear Didier,” the letter said: “At this point we have no idea whether our beautiful home makes it through this terrible moment” but the family wanted to “emphasize two things.”
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“(F)irst, we hope you and the people of our city are safe,” Clooney wrote. Second, he said, the family is committed to the town’s recovery: “We are part of this community and we’ll be part of making it whole.”
Clooney and his wife, Amal, have 9-year-old twins.
French authorities gave the go-ahead Thursday for 84,000 evacuees forced out by the monster wildfire to return to home, the strongest sign yet that firefighters are turning a corner in a grueling battle against the flames that have burned an area four times the size of Paris.
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