Woolsey fire destroys Australian director’s home, burns savings kept in fire-proof safe

California finds new ways of costing residents money. This time, Aussie  director Niel Johnson (whose films seem to be the direct to DVD sci-fi variety) distrusted banks so he kept a couple hundred grand in a not entirely “fire proof” safe at home. The safe itself was apparently burned to dust, which is pretty impressive.

The loss of money is bad for him, but there might also be a cultural loss:

The science fiction director said he and Birdsall collected sci-fi memorabilia from sets around the world and stored it in their home. The “Evolution War” director said those items, and all the cash he kept in his safe, were destroyed.

And not to be too much of a smartass, but there is a sort of tangential irony here. A director of scifi movies about robots and aliens has his home burned to the ground by a fire that crackpots are claiming was created and fed by Evil Government Laser Beams.

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