Picture it, Manka’s Inverness Lodge, San Francisco Bay Area, December 27th 2006, 2:30 a.m. A wind and rainstorm is passing through the area and causes a tree to crash into the back of a building near a water heater. A fire ignites.
The historic lodge’s chef and co-owner, Daniel DeLong, is pulling items out of the inferno when someone begins to help him. It’s none other than actor Jake Gyllenhaal, 26. “[He] was helping...




