Spencer Pratt’s father initially wanted to help fight the recent Los Angeles wildfires instead of evacuating with the family.
“I’m trying to tear my dad away from a mountain of fire because he was, like, in this trance and would not leave,” Pratt, 41, said on the Thursday, January 30, episode of “The Viall Files” podcast. “I was like, ‘You’re gonna die, Dad.’ He was like, ‘I’m gonna stay and fight the fire. I did it in Malibu in the ‘70s.’”
According to Pratt, it took him “two hours” to coax his father to leave his Pacific Palisades home.
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“I finally drove him away [and] then I watched on security cameras, he snuck back,” Pratt recalled. “So, now I’m watching my dad with this little garden hose as a mountain of flames is coming down the street. He’s not picking up his phone. The hardest part about the whole thing was watching and not having my dad pick up. I was like, ‘My dad’s gonna die.’”
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The Hills alum further noted that his father “fully should have” died because he tried to extinguish flames at both his and Pratt’s houses. Both homes were ultimately destroyed in the blaze, which ravaged thousands of acres in L.A. earlier this month.
By the time Pratt’s dad picked up the phone, it “sounded like he had brain poisoning from the smoke,” he recalled. Pratt’s wife, Heidi Montag, later added on Thursday that they also called 911 to check on her father-in-law.
“They were like, ‘Absolutely not. No one is going there. Those roads are inaccessible. Whatever he is doing is taking his own life at risk,’” Montag, 38, recalled.
After Pratt called his dad upwards of “700 times,” the Pratt Daddy Crystals founder finally learned that he was planning to evacuate the area.
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“He [later] went to the hospital with smoke inhalation poisoning or whatever,” Pratt told podcast host Nick Viall. “He can barely talk now. That was good and bad because it really took my mind off watching our own house burning down on the security cameras. At least my dad got out of there.”
Pratt and his father have since moved into new residences in the respective neighborhoods of Santa Barbara and Santa Monica. According to Pratt’s Thursday appearance, he and wife Montag are also discussing rebuilding their property but do not have the funds to cover all the costs.
“We put all of our money into our house and our life to build something for our kids to put in their name and every detail we just kept on every year for the last eight years,” Pratt exclusively told Us Weekly earlier in January. “Our house was 3,000 square feet. It is not a mansion in the Palisades. Everything was perfect from the stoves to the washing machines. That’s all we put our money into — and then we go and eat nice groceries at Erewhon. But our life was like, ‘Put our money into our house, eat clean groceries and that’s it.’”
Pratt and Montag share sons Gunner, 7, and Ryker, 2.
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