Jeremy Renner is in ‘critical but stable condition’ after being injured while out and about in his snow plow.
The 51-year-old actor, a two-time Academy Award nominee, was airlifted to the hospital on Sunday, his spokesperson told Deadline noting how he suffered a ‘weather related accident while plowing snow.’
Renner, who is a lover of big machines often posts pictures and videos of himself enjoying his home in Lake Tahoe where he can be seen plowing his driveway.
According to the actor’s spokesperson, The Mayor of Kingstown star was ‘receiving excellent care’ and his family his with him.
Jeremy Renner is in ‘critical but stable condition’ due to injuries suffered after a ‘weather related accident while plowing snow’. He is pictured here in such a machine last December
The actor, 51, a two-time Academy Award nominee, was airlifted to the hospital on Sunday
The actor owns a home in Reno in the region near Mt. Rose-Ski Tahoe,
The actor, who plays Hawkeye and can be seen in The Avengers and Captain America films, has owned a home in above Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Mt. Rose-Ski Tahoe in Washoe County for several years.
In a video posted to his Instagram account last December the actor could be seen enjoying driving his industrial-sized snow thrower.
‘I have so much respect for Mother Earth , and Mother Nature … I expect to lose the fight but I’ll always give it my best shot,’ he wrote.
In the past Renner has also openly told of how he often spends time working with local fire departments, helping their teams.
‘I work with the fire departments up there and they are pretty awesome. They are teaching me and helping me, and I still have to get some more hours in with them.’
Last month the area in the Sierra Mountains suffered a massive snowfall which saw Renner tweet this photo of his car that was completely buried by the snow
This Saturday, Dec 31, 2022, photo released by Caltrans District 3, California Department of Transportation crews clear the road on Highway 50 over Echo Summit for avalanche control work in South Lake Tahoe, California
Pedestrians walk along a road as a snow plow works in South Lake Tahoe on Saturday. A winter storm warning has been issued for the greater Lake Tahoe area throughout Sunday
A powerful storm has brought heavy rain and snowfall to much of California, causing traffic jams and closing major roads as the state prepared to usher in a new year.
In the high Sierra Nevada, where Renner’s home is located about 2ft of snow fell into New Year’s Day but as much as 5ft was predicted.
The Sacramento agency released a map of 24-hour precipitation showing a wide range of totals in the region, from less than an inch in some areas to more than 5in in the Sierra foothills.
The US National Weather Service in Sacramento had warned about hazardous driving conditions and posted photos on Twitter showing traffic on snow-covered mountain passes, where vehicles are required to have chains or four-wheel drive.
A so-called atmospheric river storm was pulling in a long and wide plume of moisture from the Pacific Ocean.
Flooding and rock slides also closed portions of roads across Northern California.
It was the first of several storms expected to roll across California over the next week.
Hannah Chandler-Cooley, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Sacramento, said the current system is expected to be warmer and wetter, while next week’s storms will be colder.
People walk along a snow-covered road in Tahoe Keys community in South Lake Tahoe
Renner is a two-time acting Oscar nominee, scoring back-to-back nods for The Hurt Locker and The Town.
Renner’s portrayal of a bomb disposal specialist in Iraq in 2008’s The Hurt Locker helped turn him into a household name.
The Avengers in 2012 cemented him as part of Marvel’s grand storytelling ambitions, with his character appearing in several sequels and getting its own Disney+ series, Hawkeye.
Jeremy Renner is in ‘critical but stable condition’ due to injuries suffered after a ‘weather related accident while plowing snow’
Renner was seen in the snow in a Facebook post three years ago
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