STEVIE NICKS details TERRIFYING MOMENT she FLED her house during the LA FIRES.
This past week, Nicks made an appearance at the FireAid benefit concert to help support the communities impacted by the devastating fires that ripped through Los Angeles county last month.
Before performing the Fleetwood Mac classic “Landslide,” Nicks revealed she was one of the thousands of people who were forced to evacuate their home and detailed the scary moments as the fire raged toward her.
“I have been on the road for two solid years and I’ve just been off for about three or four weeks, right before the fire started,” she began. “I’m going to go a little bit rogue here and actually talk to you about what happened… But I want you to know, for the first time in my life, knowing that I was a full on Pacific Palisadian woman, with an old, beautiful, famous house that was almost taken from me as the fire came up the hill behind my house. And I was pretty sure as they whisked me away and evacuated me – my least favorite word now – to another safe place, that when I turned around and looked my house would be up in flames. And due to the fact that my house was wood, because it was built in ’38, it would have set the rest of the whole street on both sides on fire.”
Nicks continued, explaining that while it was a close call, her home was one of the few to survive the destruction:
“So she stands strong, just like her mom. And in my opinion, she saved that whole street. And so, when I look at her now – I have yet to go back inside, I just walked around the house and seen it, and just to go like, ‘You know what, there is a God.’ Sometimes when you think that everything is lost, you have to believe. Even if you’re not religious, you have to go, ‘There is a God.’ And that God saved that house for me because without her, I don’t know what I would have done. So I wanted to share that story with you.”
“And now, the reason I got saved is ‘cause it was a team from Santa Rosa, the Santa Rosa firefighters, that saved her. And they never gave up. I have to tell you, not just on my house, but on the whole side of the whole mountain, canyon, that was coming up towards us. And so, I’d like to dedicate this next song to all of those firefighters, because until you really see it happen, you can’t believe it. You just simply cannot believe the bravery of these men. Captain Dean especially. So I’d like to dedicate this song to them,” she concluded before launching into “Landslide” in their honor.
(Transcribed by AlternativeNation)
