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Gary Hall Jr.'s Pacific Palisades home was destroyed by the Palisades Fire

Olympic swimmer, 10-time medalist (1996/2000/2004)

Location

Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, CA

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AP: all 10 Olympic medals destroyed in the LA fires; IOC presented 10 replacements; ‘The originals burned four months ago at his home in the Pacific Palisades’LA Times: ‘Hall was renting a home in Pacific Palisades, but it burned to the ground’; lost his Sea Monkeys Swimming business

Fire

Palisades Fire

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U.S. Olympic swimmer Gary Hall Jr. lost his (rented) Pacific Palisades home to the Palisades Fire in January 2025 — along with his 10 Olympic medals (five gold, three silver, two bronze from 1996–2004), which burned inside his fireproof safe that proved ‘definitely not fireproof.’ He told the Sydney Morning Herald: ‘We were surrounded by flames. Embers were raining down on me as I jumped into my car. I had time to grab my dog and a couple of personal items. Everything else is gone.’ In May 2025 the IOC presented him with 10 replacement medals; he brought the melted-together originals to Lausanne. He also lost his swim school, Sea Monkeys Swimming, which he ran out of the house’s pool.