Jeremy Renner let fans know that he had safely evacuated from his home, located between Lake Tahoe and Reno, as he shared distressing scenes of orange flames and smoke from the approaching Davis Fire from the driveway of his property.
But as Renner shared a photo on Instagram Story of a fire truck that was parked near his home, he also posted other images of firefighters moving into the forest on foot to knock back the flames.
“Keep kicking (expletive) all firefighters and support crew,” the “Hawkeye” actor captioned one video. On an image of a plane dropping fire retardant over the forest, he wrote, “Fire support working hard to protect our community.”
Renner’s Lake Tahoe home lies in Washoe County, Nevada, and on Mount Rose Highway, which winds in the mountains between Reno and Incline Village along Lake Tahoe’s north shore. Mount Rose Highway was closed after the Davis Fire was reported at around 2:30 p.m. Saturday in Davis Creek Regional Park, west of Interstate 580 in the Washoe Lake area.
As of Tuesday morning, the fire had grown to 5,596 acres, or 8.7 square miles, with no containment, according to estimates by fire managers for Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. An emergency declaration from Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo’s office said that about 20,000 people had been evacuated.
“This fire is far from being out,” Charlie Moore, the fire chief for Truckee Meadows Fire and Rescue Protection District in Washoe County, Nev., said at a press conference late Monday afternoon. “It is still burning in heavy timber.”
Renner tagged Truckee Meadows Firefighters in another photo, in which he also let his followers know that he was safe and successfully “evacuated. ““When the wind shifts it’s either really good or really bad,” the “Hawkeye” actor wrote over another scene of the blaze.
Renner no doubt has somewhat complicated relationship with his Lake Tahoe area property, which lies in a part of Washoe County near Reno. He told the Reno Gazette Journal in 2019 that he bought a home in the area because Reno was the right-sized city for him, it has majestic scenery and it allowed him and his family to ski frequently.
“In a big city, it’s hard to find community and even know your neighbors in a big city, but with Reno, I find I know quite a few people here,” he said. “It’s just big enough, and it’s just small enough for me, and I love it.”
But the two-time Oscar nominee also was nearly killed in a catastrophic snow plow accident that occurred near his home over the New Year’s Day in 2023. Renner was “completely crushed” by a 14,300-pound snowcat snow plow that he was using to help a family member, whose vehicle had become “stuck” in snowfall from a winter storm. He suffered blunt chest trauma and orthopedic injuries that involved months of recovery and physical therapy.
Nonetheless, he considers his Lake Tahoe property and the Reno area his home, and he has said that he continues to find a sense of community there. Since surviving his accident, he told CNN, “I just feel very blessed and very lucky to be upright and walk around and to live life.”
