Guy Fieri Has Firetrucks on His California Property in Case It 'All Burns Down' — Take a Tour

Mar. 15, 2025

Guy Fieri.Photo:In Depth with Graham Bensinger

In Depth with Graham Bensinger

Guy Fieriisn’t taking any chances when it comes to safeguarding his beloved Northern California home.

TheFood Networkstar, 56, took journalist Graham Bensinger on a tour of the 42-acre property in Santa Rosa forIn Depth with Graham Bensinger. There, he opened up about a massive wildfire that once ravaged the area and threatened to destroy his home.

Fieri told Bensinger that he was fortunate to have had precautions in place to protect the property — including fire trucks onsite.

When Bensinger asked Fieri what he worries about, the celebrity chef replied, “Oh, that it’s going to all end. It’s going to all burn down.”

“But I’m not gonna let it burn down, I’m going to stay here and fight it,” he continued. “We’ve got hoses ready with a thing called a trash pump. You throw the end in the pool with, you know, 50,000 gallons [of water] in the pool, and this thing will shoot — it shoots like a fire hose.”

Fieri then recounted how when a past wildfire swept through, his neighborhood evacuated, but his family — wife Lori and sons Hunter and Ryder — decided to stay put, until the situation grew increasingly dangerous.

“So we stay here and everything is pretty calm, we’re doing all right, until [the fire] gets underneath the solar panels and they start to explode. Now the solar panels are on fire. That’s when we get scared,” he recalled. “We fought it for, you know, five, six hours, got it all done. The whole hill was smoldering.”

Guy Fieri.In Depth with Graham Bensinger

“It has 400 gallons of propane, its own water source, its own generator source, its own Wi-Fi. We can smoke 50 to 75 pork butts at a time, and that’s the greatest way to feed people in volume, when you can do the low and slow meat,” Fieri detailed. “[We’ve got a] 40-gallon tilt skillet — I mean, it is a monster and we can go and cook [food for] up to 5,000 people in a day. So we built this for the disasters as they came about.”

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“When we don’t have disasters, we take the trailer to different municipalities around the country and just do events celebrating first responders, active military and veterans,” Fieri told Bensinger, noting that he also had a near-duplicate version of the trailer built for the East Coast.

For Fieri, the trailers are about having control and maintaining self-sufficiency in uncertain times. “I built this and paid for it because I didn’t want to be beholden to anybody,” he said. “I wanted to be able to just do it my way on my timeline.”

source: people.com