Wildfires Smoke Out 24, NCIS, Tori B&B

The wildfires raging across Southern California aren't just threatening the stars' multimillion-dollar beachside digs but also their livelihood.

The blazes, which began Sunday morning, already consumed Sean Penn's Malibu plot and sent Mel Gibson, Kelsey Grammer and their neighbors fleeing for safer ground.

"All I see is smoke," Grammer tells E!, "but we're okay. We're safe. We got the dog, we got the kids.

"My daughter was nervous in the… in the beginning [of the evacuation]," Grammer adds. "She woke up, 'Daddy, what's the matter?' I said, 'Oh honey, it's nothing. Just relax. Come on, we're going to have some fun.' So she shined the flashlight around and we got out. It was fine."

Dancing with the Stars' Jane Seymour told E! she was distracted during her routine Monday.

"I tried really hard not to think about it," she said, "but my husband [actor James Keach] is at home fighting the fire right now.

"The kids have been evacuated, I'm not there. He's staying in town and he's promised me he's going to get out of there if it gets too close."

The wildfires have also disrupted several area productions, including 24, NCIS, Cold Case, The Riches and Big Shots.

On both Monday and Tuesday, Kiefer Sutherland and his 24 cohorts were scheduled to film location scenes at the Marine Corps Air Station El Toro near the Orange County city of Irvine. However, at just 7:30 a.m. Monday, after Sutherland, fellow cast members and the crew had  arrived at the base, producers canceled the day's production, citing health concerns for the assembled workers.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, cast and crew members had complained about blurred vision and difficulty breathing, due to the smoke-filled air caused by the nearby raging flames.

The location shoot was subsequently scrapped, but Sutherland and a few key members of the cast and crew made their way to one of the show's soundstages, where by 1 p.m. they were able to shoot a handful of shorter scenes indoors, saving the day from becoming a complete loss.

"When the dust settles, we probably lost five hours worth of work, and we have to reschedule the two days we missed," producer Michael Klick told the Reporter.

CBS' Cold Case suffered a minor production setback Sunday when the destruction-wreaking Santa Ana winds ripped through the show's Simi Valley location and knocked down sets. After a brief loss to production time, producers selected another, less wind-prone area to continue the shoot.

Another CBS procedural, NCIS, saw its production affected by the flames, though not due to any flames encroaching on their set, which itself is uncomfortably close to the Stevenson Ranch fires. Instead, producers were left scrambling for crew replacements as several members of the production whose homes were threatened by the blazes were forced to remain near their residences to prepare for evacuations.

FX's The Riches, which filmed in Santa Clarita Monday, also continued as planned, albeit with less manpower than initially intended.

Producers on the series had initially arranged for Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies to control traffic around the shoot, but the deputies were pulled away before cameras rolled to bolster the fire responders. The Santa Clarita Film Commission stepped in to rearrange the shoot and remove the need for law enforcement on the scene.

One of ABC's freshman entries, Big Shots, took preemptive precautions to safeguard its production against any conflagration-related danger, opting to completely cancel a cycling sequence that was scheduled to shoot in Malibu Tuesday.

The ocean-adjacent enclave has proven to be one of the hardest hit areas from the fires, which, all told, have charred at least 2,400 acres from north of Los Angeles to southeast of San Diego. The Malibu homes of James Cameron and Cindy Crawford were reportedly in danger from the encroaching flames, and the gated community where Olivia Newton-John and Tanya Tucker reside has been partially evacuated.

Firefighters were also spotted giving a precautionary hosing down to David Arquette and Courteney Cox's Oceanside abode while The Hills stars Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag told E! News' Ryan Seacrest Monday that had taken matters into their own hands and were warding off the encroaching brushfire flames from their home before firefighters arrived on the scene.

Meanwhile, the location for a not currently in production show also faces potential threatening from the fires.

The town of Fallbrook, about 100 miles southeast of L.A., was completely evacuated Monday night as a precaution against the raging fires. Among the homes and businesses forced to temporarily shutter was the Chateau La Rue, the renovated bed and breakfast run by Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott on their Oxygen reality show, Tori & Dean: Inn Love.

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