(KRON) — Steve Kerr’s mom is among the many individuals who misplaced their houses on this week’s Los Angeles fires.
The Golden State Warriors’ coach spoke in regards to the fires, that are presently tearing via his childhood neighborhood, earlier than the crew’s recreation in Detroit on Thursday. The Kerr household moved into that home in 1969, and his mom nonetheless lived there.
Kerr stated his 90-year-old mom is okay, and she or he took as lots of her belongings as she might earlier than evacuating.
Pictures: Devastation from Palisades, Eaton fires round Los Angeles
“She’s got a lot of support and friends, so she’s safe and sound,” Kerr stated. “Everything that she could possibly get out she did.”
A lot of Kerr’s associates have misplaced their houses, and his highschool, Palisades Constitution, was destroyed within the blaze.
“It’s hard to even fathom how Pacific Palisades rebuilds and how it becomes a thriving community again. It’s just shocking,” he stated.
Kerr was in a position to go to his childhood dwelling for the final time earlier than the Warriors performed the Los Angeles Clippers on Dec. 27. They hosted about 100 visitors for his mom’s birthday over the summer time.
Kerr shared that Draymond Inexperienced’s dwelling in Brentwood is okay. Everett Dayton, who works for the Warriors’ participant improvement division, is in Palisades together with his household. Kerr stated his dwelling seems to be intact.
