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By Aaron Rasmussen
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Milo Ventimiglia and his pregnant wife Jarah Mariano escaped the Los Angeles wildfires unharmed, but they suffered a difficult loss as they prepare to welcome their first child.
The parents-to-be were forced to evacuate their Malibu home and watch online as the residence and all their possession left behind were destroyed by flames.
"There is a shock moment where you go, 'This is real and this is happening,' and then at a certain point you turn [the camera feed] off," Ventimiglia told CBS News on Thursday, January 9, as he surveyed in person what remained of their burnt-out home. "What good is it to keep watching? We kind of accepted the loss."
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"You start thinking about all the memories in different parts of the house and what not and then you see your neighbors' houses and everything kind of around and your heart just breaks," he said of the "heavy" reality they faced.
Though the This Is Us actor and the 41-year-old former Victoria's Secret model were able to take some of their belongings in the scramble to safety, the items they had just stocked in their baby's nursery, including a crib, were gone. The tragedy is especially challenging for the pair, who were just married in September. Ventimiglia, 47, noted that Mariano is due to give birth "any day now."
"We've got good friends and we've got good people we're working with, and we'll make do," Ventimiglia said, focusing on the positive side of the situation. "Wife and baby and dog, most important."
Ventimiglia joins a grim list of celebrities whose homes have been destroyed in the multiple blazes currently covering the Los Angeles area, including Tina Knowles, Anthony Hopkins, Anna Faris, Leighton Meester and Adam Brody.
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