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Mario Lopez opens up to PEOPLE about the paying tribute to firefighters through his new holiday film, The Christmas Spark

"We had to evacuate our house here, too, and the firemen were so great, the way they handled everything," he says of the wildfires that ravaged Los Angeles earlier this year

The Christmas Spark premiered Nov. 28 on Great American Family

When the Los Angeles fires occurred earlier this year, Mario Lopez and his family were one of the many affected who had to evacuate their homes. Now, the TV host and actor is paying tribute to the firefighters who fought tirelessly to save the city.

In The Christmas Spark , which premiered on Great American Family on Nov. 28, Lopez plays a corporate lawyer who experiences a mid-life crisis and joins his small to

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