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Spencer Pratt watched his Pacific Palisades home burn to the ground in a raging L.A. wildfire -- and he captured his gut-wrenching ordeal on camera.

In video footage, flames tear through the hills as he mutters "Yikes" a few times behind the camera -- a simple reaction, but it spoke volumes about the intensity of watching the home he shared with wife Heidi and their two young sons go up in smoke.

Spencer shared another clip, barely holding it together in his car, as the fire raged behind him. With a dazed look, he told his followers he was watching his home burn down right in front of him.

Mandy Moore was evacuated from her house with her family as wildfires continue to rage across the L.A. area -- she’s safe for now, but has no clue if her Pasadena home survived the flames.

The actress is still in the dark about her home’s fate -- but she expressed her thanks to friends for letting her crash with her 3 children, dogs, and cats.

Mandy’s emotions were understandably raw -- she also thanks first-responders, while feeling completely gutted by the destruction and loss unfolding around her. She included an #EatonFire hashtag in her post, referring to the brush fire that also forced evacuations of elderly residents of a senior center in Pasadena Tuesday night that was caught on video.

Firefighters and police swooped in Tuesday night, urgently rescuing elderly residents from a Pasadena senior center as flames from a raging Angeles National Forest fire crept dangerously close -- and the scenes are gut-wrenching.

You can see the dramatic evacuation of about 100 residents -- many in wheelchairs -- unfolding in a 7-Eleven parking lot across from The Terraces at Park Marino, with embers and ash swirling in the chaos of a nearby wildfire ... spurred by what meteorologists are calling one of L.A.’s worst windstorms in the last decade.

A police SWAT armored vehicle and a bus were brought in to whisk senior citizens away from the Eaton Fire -- the second major wildfire to hit L.A. County in the past 24 hours.

The Palisades Fire is sweeping through one of the most celeb-packed areas of L.A. and -- just like tens of thousands of other terrified residents -- several A-listers' homes are in the path of destruction.

Pacific Palisades is home to folks like Tom Hanks, Ben Affleck, Steven Spielberg, Reese Witherspoon, Michael Keaton, Travis Barker, Landon Barker, Alabama Barker and Miles Teller ... just to name a few.

While the fate of their houses remains uncertain, family members are as anxious as can be. Chet Hanks, the son of Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, took to Instagram to express his concerns ... "The neighborhood I grew up in is burning to the ground rn [right now]. Pray for the Palisades."

Terrifying footage of the raging fires in Los Angeles shows people stuck inside a home with their dog surrounded by the inferno.

Check out the video posted to X ... a man swings his camera from side to side showing the hell on earth flames whipping around outside the glass doors of the house.

You can hear him coughing and anxiously talking to his pooch and another man in the kitchen, reassuring them that they're going to be okay.

5:40 PM PT -- The grassy area around The Getty Villa Museum has gone up in flames.

3:46 PM PT -- The LA County Fire Department has resorted to bulldozing vehicles to get to the inferno and fight the flames.

Pacific Palisades, a celeb-filled neighborhood in Los Angeles, is burning -- a fast-moving wildfire has panicked residents trying to flee to safety, but all the roads are traffic-choked.

The wildfire first sparked around 10:30 AM Tuesday, with the flames spreading to more than 200 acres a little more than an hour later ... according to LAFD spokesperson Erik Scott.

Due to the growing wildfire, many in the area are being advised to either get out ASAP or, at least, prepare to evacuate. It's unclear if any homes have gone up in flames yet, but we got video of at least one scorched vehicle on one major road in the affluent 'hood.

Richard Cohen, Meredith Vieira's husband of 38 years, has died following a decades-long battle with multiple sclerosis.

The "Today" show, where Meredith served as co-anchor between 2006 and 2011, announced Richard's passing Tuesday morning ... confirming Richard -- a fellow newsman -- had died on Christmas Eve while surrounded by his family.

"Today" co-anchor Savannah Guthrie said Meredith is "in really good spirits" ... with Hoda Kotb also revealing the family was happy to get an extra month with Richard when the family became very concerned about his health at Thanksgiving.

Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, is being treated by medical experts as he recovers from a bout of pneumonia that landed him in the hospital ... TMZ has learned.

A rep for Turner tells TMZ ... the legendary media mogul has been recovering at a rehabilitation center in Florida following a recent hospitalization. The rep tells us he'd suffered a "mild case of pneumonia."

The rep says Ted "expects a full recovery."

Police are giving us a new look at the Cybertruck that exploded and burst into flames outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas last week.

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police have released new video that shows Army Special Forces soldier Matthew Livelsberger's Tesla Cybertruck bursting into flames outside the hotel on the Vegas strip on New Year's Day.

The new video shows another angle as explosives were detonated inside the vehicle causing the truck to explode and burst into flames while Livelsberger sat in the front seat. Officials say he put one of his guns in his mouth, with the shot coming out the left side of his head prior to the explosion.

Matthew Livelsberger, the Army Special Forces soldier who blew up his Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump Hotel in Vegas, was battling PTSD -- and now we know his motive.

The Clark County Nevada Sheriff's Dept. just released a portion of a letter Livelsberger wrote, saying ... "This was not a terrorist attack, it was a wake up call. Americans only pay attention to spectacles and violence. What better way to get my point across than a stunt with fireworks and explosives?"

He goes on ... "Why did I personally do it now? I needed to cleanse my mind of the brothers I've lost and relieve myself of the burden of the lives I took."

Luigi Mangione, the charged killer in the Brian Thompson murder case, took time from a vacation in Thailand to visit a shooting range ... a decision that now sticks out to some of his travel buddies.

Two German tourists who traveled extensively with Luigi in Asia in the months before the shooting look back on their interactions with Mangione in our new TMZ Investigates documentary, "Luigi Mangione: The Mind of a Killer."

Luigi's travel companions, Paul and Max, tell us Mangione hung back from a beach day in Thailand to go to a shooting range instead ... later reporting back to them that it was expensive. But, that's not the only strange thing Luigi did around the German tourists.

TMZ has obtained video showing a new angle of the New Orleans terror attack on Bourbon Street, and it's heartbreaking.

You see a crowd of people mulling about on the street, along with folks dancing on the sidewalk ... celebrating the New Year. Then, suddenly, people in the street scramble ... clearly seeing the pickup truck -- with Shamsud-Din Jabbar at the wheel -- roaring toward them.

It's pretty miraculous ... almost everyone scrambles to safety, moving as fast as they can to the sidewalk. We froze the video because the vehicle hits the woman in the white shirt and grey skirt -- and the truck launches her into the air. We also did not show others Jabbar hit as the car continued its deadly path.

Matthew Livelsberger, the guy who blew up his Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump Hotel in Vegas on New Year’s Day, racked up a bunch of medals during his time in the Army ... TMZ has learned.

The Army Special Forces soldier enlisted in January 2006, serving on active duty before switching to the National Guard in March 2011. He then moved to the Army Reserve, serving from July 2012 to December 2012 ... before returning to active duty as a Special Operations soldier, assigned to the 10th Special Forces Group based in Germany.

Livelsberger was a decorated soldier, earning 25 medals, 5 ribbons, 1 tab, and 3 badges in total -- including 5 highly prestigious Bronze Stars, one with a valor device for courage under fire.

Matthew Livelsberger fashioned himself a superhero after renting a Tesla Cybertruck just days before detonating the vehicle in front of the Trump Hotel in Vegas.

The Army Special Forces active-duty soldier told his ex-GF Alicia Arritt he felt like Batman in the Musk truck -- this was just 2 days before the truck exploded.

According to texts obtained by the Denver Gazette, Livelsberger wrote, "I rented a Tesla Cybertruck. It’s the s***," and followed up with more messages, photos, and videos of the truck.

The four people the feds thought were in cahoots with New Orleans terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar weren't helping him plant bombs around the French Quarter ... they were party people looking for their next drink.

Federal sources tell TMZ ... the confusion started when investigators looked at surveillance video from the Bourbon Street area and noticed 3 men and a woman peering inside two coolers in which Jabbar had planted homemade bombs ... leading to theories Jabbar was not acting alone.

Our sources say investigators ultimately determined these people weren't terrorists at all ... rather they were partiers checking the coolers to see if there was booze inside.

The man who detonated a Tesla Cybertruck in front of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas New Year's Day shot himself in the head ... just before his vehicle exploded.

Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill said Matthew Alan Livelsberger fired the shot, although he did not say he died from the gunshot wound or the explosion.

Livelsberger was carrying military ID, a passport and credit cards. He also had distinctive tattoos ... leading authorities to figure out his identity.

A Desert Eagle .50-caliber semiautomatic pistol was found at Livelsberger's feet, and an SLR B30 semiautomatic firearm was also found inside the truck -- along with fireworks, an iPhone, and a smartwatch.