Mandy Moore tells Amazon to ‘do better’ after driver leaves package outside burned house
Actress Mandy Moore, whose family was deeply impacted by the Los Angeles wildfires, is asking Amazon to “do better.”
On Tuesday, Feb. 11, Moore took to Instagram to share a photo of a package delivered by Amazon sitting on the stoop of where her mother- and father-in-law’s house once stood.
Moore’s in-law’s home was one of the many affected by the fires.
“Do better, Amazon,” Moore wrote. “Can we not have better direction than to leave a package at a residence that no longer exists? This is my mother and father in law’s home. SMH.”
Moore’s brother-in-law, Griffin Goldsmith, was also affected.
Now, Moore is revealing the home she shares with her husband Taylor Goldsmith and their three kids has been deemed a “near total loss.”
“We never got an evacuation notice,” Moore wrote in a separate Instagram post.
“Sometimes in the quieter moments of processing the last month, I play the game of what would have happened if I didn’t have my phone next to me, playing my typical ’piano for deep sleep’ mix as I nursed Lou before bed, so I could answer the call from my brother-in-law,” Moore continued as she recalled the evening they evacuated.
“It was 6:45 p.m.,” she wrote, and her in-laws had decided to pack up and evacuate their homes. Griffin had told Moore that she and Taylor should do the same.
“Without skipping a beat, we promptly packed up the kids (in their pjs), our dog, and scrambled to find our 3 cats as the power went out,” she wrote. “I’ll never forget Taylor trying to figure out how to manually open our two little garage doors. They’d just finished construction around Thanksgiving and we’d just started using them.
“In the harrowing 60 mph winds, as the sky glowed a dark red and ash started to fall all around us, we raced across town amidst fallen trees on the freeway to the safety of our dear friend’s place.”
“We found out this week that while our house is still standing, because of the proximity to the fires/ burning structures (around us on all sides) the contents of our home are a near total loss. Clothes, furniture, pretty much everything will have to be disposed of … maybe even the walls too,” Moore explained.
“We won’t be there for a very long time as it and the neighborhood itself get sorted out and cleaned and the rebuilding starts. I say all of this because I’m struggling. Yes, we are exceedingly lucky to technically still have the structure of a home. But also … do we still have a home?”