A 175-pound tortoise has managed to flee from the California wildfires.
A 175-pound tortoise known as Tiptoe has managed to flee from the California wildfires
Hundreds of homes have been destroyed in the affluent arena of Pacific Palisades but 23-year-old Tiptoe – who is owned by TikTok star Caitlin Doran – managed to get out to safety just in the nick of time and his story has amassed millions of views across social media.
Caitlin – who has more four million followers on her @caitlinandtiptoe page – told USA Today: “I’ll give it a day, maybe go up there tonight just to see [what’s left] because I’m curious. But, I mean there’s, nothing there.
“We got him out at the perfect time. He wouldn’t be here today.”
Caitlin first heard about the fire on the morning and quickly parent’s home in the Palisades – where she and the tortoise film content together – and decided to move him to the home of her aunt and uncle as a precaution but then took him to her own house in Marina Del Rey as things got worse.
She then returned to the Palisades once again in order to usher her grandparents – both of whom are in their eighties – to safety.
She said: “We had to go up the back way because everything was closed.
“When we got to the house I see my grandpa has a hose, my uncle has a hose there at the grandparent’s house. My mom’s on the roof, my dad’s in the backyard with the hose.
“My boyfriend went up to my dad and he just had to say, ‘It’s done, the water stopped working.'”
Tiptoe was presented to Caitlin as a Christmas gift in 2001 and has lived in her parents’ house since then and has become an integral part of the community.
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