Tennis Legend lost her trophies while evacuating during LA fires | Tennis News
Former Tennis player Pam Shriver said her car was stolen in which she had several major trophies won during her illustrious career. The 62-year-old had to flee to a hotel in Arina del Rey, California after leaving her home at Brentwood amidst the Los Angeles fires.
“My son (and) I are at a police station reporting our car was stolen from the hotel parking lot we evacuated to when fires started,” Shriver wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “This was the car that had most of my major trophies being stored until we could safely move back home.”
The Palisades fire gathered traction last week when the blaze grew quickly and burnt thousands of acres on Wednesday, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. It was a few hours into the Palisades fire when the Eaton fire erupted near Pasadena in the San Gabriel Mountains.
According to ESPN reports Shriver lost “five US Open trophies, five French Open plates, and one Australian Open trophy.” Speaking to the network she said, “I was just starting to take things out to pack them in the car, and I was like, ‘Where’s the car?… It’s sad on so many levels that when people are at their lowest and in their most difficult times, people are doing things like this.”
Los Angeles firefighters braced on Tuesday for a new round of intense winds that could fuel two monstrous wildfires that have already killed at least 24 people, leveled entire neighborhoods, and scorched an area the size of Washington, D.C.
Much of Los Angeles and Ventura County could experience wind gusts of 50 to 70 mph from early Tuesday through Wednesday as dry Santa Ana winds picked up after relative calm last week, according to the National Weather Service. It declared a red flag warning, meaning the situation was dangerous and could ignite new fires while stoking those already burning.
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