~*I think this is heroic, even though it wasn't too much to do. Jake is AWSOME. U think more stars R like this

Jake & Maggie Gyllenhaal Escape Hotel Fire

THURSDAY DECEMBER 28, 2006 04:25 PM EST

Jake Gyllenhaal battled hurricanes and tidal waves in The Day After Tomorrow, but on Wednesday he faced a real-life natural disaster: A fire at the California hotel where he was vacationing with his family.

Gyllenhaal, 26, and his actress sister Maggie, 29, were among the guests forced to flee Manka's Inverness Lodge in the San Francisco Bay area when the two-story wooden inn caught fire just after 2 a.m. Wednesday, the Marin Independent Journal reports.

"Jake was helping me pull things out of the fire," Daniel DeLong, a chef and co-owner of the historic lodge where the actors had often vacationed, told the Journal.

The blaze apparently started after a tree crashed into the back of the building near a water heater. No one was hurt, but Marin County Fire Department Battalion Chief Mike Giannini told the paper that the main lodge and restaurant had been.

~*Per People Magazine*~