Stanley the giraffe and about 140 other creatures were safe after their small California exotic animal park was largely destroyed by the fierce wildfire that swept through the mountains above Malibu, the park's owners said.
Stanley, who became a cause celebre on social media, rode out the firestorm at the Malibu Wine Safari along with other large, exotic animals because the risk of moving them was too great, Dakota Semler told Reuters in an interview this week.
"The worst rumors out there are that we completely neglected our animals, which isn't true. We've been here with them the whole time," said Semler, whose family owns the park.