“All My Children” alum Cameron Mathison gave advice on what not to say to someone who lost their home in the Los Angeles fires after losing their own home.
“Maybe if you’re sharing or commenting on someone who’s lost their home in 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 fires in LA which started on January 7th and are still going up.
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Cameron Mathison shared tips on what not to say to people who lost their homes in the LA fires. (Getty Images; Cameron Mathison/Instagram)
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“Some people in general can move around a lot. Some people might have moved to LA, but they brought all their childhood stuff back home with their parents. And then some people might have been in that house for a long time, and it really represents a lifetime memory, and it’s where their children were raised 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 is like love and memory, and could mean much more.”
“Keep that in mind when you’re sharing and say something like maybe, ‘It’s just a house’ or ‘It’s just stuff, and you can replace it.'”
“For some people that might be true, but for many it is much more than that,” he added.
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Cameron Mathison left behind “valuable” items before his home was destroyed in the Southern California wildfires. (Getty Images)
“Keep that in mind when you’re sharing and say something like maybe, ‘It’s just a house’ or ‘It’s just stuff, and you can replace it.’ For some people that may be true, but for many it is much more than that.”
Mathison previously revealed he left some “valuable” items behind 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 his home.
“Unfortunately I left behind some valuable ones where the kids were very, very young and film that you can’t replace,” Mathison said. Party tonight. “If I really thought the house was going to collapse, I would have grabbed a lot more.”
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Mathison recalled finding out his house had burned down while watching the news. “I was just sitting there, it was probably 6 in the morning and I had to go upstairs,” he continued, saying he bought a mask and goggles before going to his neighborhood. – It looked like a war zone.
The actor realized the family home was “gone” when he arrived. “It was really, really decimated. There’s nothing there. Less than nothing. It’s just all burned to ashes.”
Cameron Mathison and his estranged wife Vanessa Mathison lost their home in a fire in Eaton. (Paul Archuleta/Getty Images)
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Trees sway in strong winds as the Eaton Fire burns structures on Jan. 8. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
Southern California firefighters continued to battle the Palisades and Eaton fires Wednesday, which has killed at least 28 people and destroyed more than 14,000 structures since the Jan. 7 eruption. The Palisades Fire has reached 68% containment and the Eaton Fire has reached 91%.
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is investigating the cause of the fire, but has not released any findings.
Cars were left burnt at the dealership after a fire in Eaton on January 10. (Jae C. Hong/AP)
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The Associated Press contributed to this report.
