Conan O’Brien Says His Pacific Palisades Home Was Spared by L.A. Fires After Thinking 'Our House Will Go'

Conan O’Brien’s house is safe from the ongoing Los Angeles wildfires.

The television host, 61, revealed in the Jan. 20 episode of his Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend podcast that his property was not damaged despite being evacuated. The episode marks the first time he has recorded the podcast since the wildfires first erupted on Jan. 7.

O’Brien said he was in a meeting with writers to discuss his upcoming gig as the host of the 2025 Oscars when he got a call from his wife Liza about seeing "some smoke."

"I remember thinking, 'Well, we've been through this before.' We've been evacuated. There's also been smoke and we haven't been evacuated," he said. "It's part of life in L.A., so I wasn't thinking that much about it."

Liza then called to tell him that they were evacuated.

"And so I went from here to, whatever, we went to a hotel, and I went to sleep that night thinking . . . 'I'm pretty sure that our house will go' and it did not," he explained.

O'Brien continued to say that the amount of people he knows who lost their homes is "stunning."

Sona Movsesian, O’Brien’s longtime assistant, joined him on the podcast and recalled losing her own home in the Altadena area, which was devastated by the Eaton Fire.

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"It's our entire street, our whole neighborhood has just been destroyed," Movsesian said. "It looks like it's hard for me to look at pictures. It looks really almost apocalyptic."

The first fire started in Pacific Palisades, followed by the Eaton Fire and the Hurst Fire. A few days later, a fourth fire, the Kenneth Fire, was being investigated as arson and growing rapidly.

On Jan. 12, the event was already being called the most destructive in the history of Los Angeles County, with more than 10,000 structures destroyed, according to ABC News.

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PEOPLE previously reported on Jan. 16, per The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner, that there have been 27 deaths so far.

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More than 80,000 people were displaced as a result of the fires, including celebrities Leighton Meester and Adam Brody, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Joshua Jackson, Anna Faris, Ricki Lake, Cary Elwes, Cameron Mathison, Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag, all of whom lost their homes.

Many others, such as Tara Lipinski, Chrissy Teigen, Britney Spears have shared that they were evacuated.

On Jan. 18, O’Brien shared a photo of himself standing in front of a Redondo Beach fire truck with four firefighters on Instagram and expressed his appreciation for their work.

"Just ran into these heroes in my neighborhood," he captioned the post. "Thank you to them and all the brave firefighters who have been working tirelessly to keep us safe."

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