RACHELLE LEFEVRE ON CALIFORNIA FIRES: 'IT'S REALLY UPSETTING'

Actor Rachelle Lefevre says the fires that ravage California get too close for comfort every year.

"The air quality gets really bad. And the really sad thing is that, I mean, it's all sad. But the redwood forests are burning up, which they've survived so much. And I was just reading actually that there are trees there that are like eighteen hundred years old," she said during a recent interview, before adding "it's really upsetting."

The massive California wildfires currently burning across the state have killed at least seven people and destroyed nearly 1,300 dwellings.

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Archive: Los Angeles, 8 November 2010

1. Setup shot actress Rachelle Lefevre

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Healdsburg, California - 24 August 2020

2. Various of property destroyed by wildfire

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Los Angeles, 24 August 2020

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rachelle Lefevre, actor

"The fires are not close to me, thank God. There's always the fire season where they are. They get, They get close. They get too close for comfort. And the air quality gets really bad. It's in northern California at the moment. And the really sad thing is that, I mean, it's all sad. But the redwood forests are burning up, which… they've survived so much. And I was just reading actually that there are trees there that are like eighteen hundred years old. Some of the trees there are older than the Roman Empire and are burning and are falling. So, yeah, it's really upsetting."

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Healdsburg, California - 24 August 2020

4. Various of home and wildfire destruction along roadway