Joe Lando Praises Jane Seymour’s Support After Losing Fire In LA
As the Los Angeles wildfires continue to destroy the city and its surroundings, the actor Joe Lando Thank you for the first time Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman the costar Jane Seymoursupport.
“The Lando family is complete. All of us with our dogs and our two birds, we are thankful that there are angels in this world,” said Lando, 63, in a video on Saturday, January 11, on Instagram, revealing that his house was burnt to the ground. “We are left with nothing but one. My friend Jane Seymour let us come to her house and opened it without hesitation and we thank God. [she] he gave us a place to sleep.”
A series of wildfires broke out in the Pacific Palisades and other LA neighborhoods on Tuesday, January 7, and continue to destroy thousands of acres of property. According to local officials, at least 16 people have died and tens of thousands of residents have left their homes under evacuation orders.
Lando and Seymour, 73, played the love interests Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman between 1993 and 1998. The show starred Seymour as Dr. Michael Quinn, who worked in Colorado Springs after the Civil War, while Lando played Byron Sully. In his message on Saturday, Lando elaborated on his exit.
“Power just came on for the first time in three days,” Lando said Saturday, noting that the Seymour area has also been affected by wildfires. “There has never been gas and you can’t drink the water and you can’t breathe the air because it’s all poisonous. I’ve never been through anything like this. It is inexplicable.”
He continued, “You see people on TV going through these things and you think, ‘Oh, my God, that must be terrible. Thank God, it’s not me.’ And now we are those people. If it was just us I would be fine with this, but everyone. It’s everything and I’m so sad and heartbroken for everyone.”
Lando began to cry in his social media video, thinking about “all the people we know who are homeless”.
“There are many rich people in our area, but not many are from this area. Most are just hard working people [who have] he lived there for generations,” he said. “My wife’s parents live down the street or stay. They lost their house after 40 years. Our house wasn’t big and it wasn’t beautiful, but it was our home. I worked hard on it. Whenever I wasn’t acting, I was working on it, trying to stay out of trouble and save money.”
Apart from their family’s houses, Lando mentioned that his children’s school was also destroyed due to the fire. (He is married to a wife Kiersten Barlow since 1997 and they share four children.)
“Everything is gone,” added Lando through tears. “And there is no rich or poor, black or white, red or blue. This fire is bad and will kill everything.”
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