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Apparently if you call 211 they will assist with placement for the week at least.
I grew up here, he has lived here for 70 years. He was focus on getting his disabled neighbor out and to the shelter. Saved nothing from his house. 93 years old and has the clothes on his back. His garage is the only standing structure standing for blocks.
Man, so much heartbreak in these tragedies. Given the destruction, it sounds like he saved someones life and is a hero. I hope he is able to find solace and peace through reflection on his selfless actions.
Heartbreaking but be proud of your pops for putting someone's needs before his by helping a disabled neighbor. I think I speak for all of us, We're proud of himMy Dads house
Everything in Altadena that I know and grew up with is gone.
Heartbreaking.
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Words fail me, I am so so very sorry.
Reading those makes me wanna own a fire hose...I got hydrants out front
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Ouch. KFI says there are a couple dozen TV and radio stations including CBS up there. Could get interesting
Your Dad is a legend for that. Well done sirMy Dads house
Everything in Altadena that I know and grew up with is gone.
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That a must have. A water truck and a pump . A pool and a gas powered pump will save alot in this scenario as it has in every fire.I have the below set up on a cart. Have enough hose to shoot all my acreage and both neighbors. Doesn't pull a lot of water but super pressurizes it for long and wide coverage. Local FD has permission to break in if im not home and get it if they need it
VERSAX® Multipurpose Pump
The VERSAX® is a versatile, rugged and economical twin-impeller self-priming pump powered by a Honda or a Briggs & Stratton Vanguard . It provides superior water-transfer performance as well as the ability to combat fire from greater distances and points of elevation. The VERSAX® is a...
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Mt. Wilson getting damaged could be catastrophic for communication. I hope people realize how devastating this could be. Damn.
The first pic and the 4th pic are the same view about 12 hours apart….you can see the fireplace is all that’s standing.
Looks like something that could actually help a lot. What is the distance/water spray reach you get out of your setup.I have the below set up on a cart. Have enough hose to shoot all my acreage and both neighbors. Doesn't pull a lot of water but super pressurizes it for long and wide coverage. Local FD has permission to break in if im not home and get it if they need it
VERSAX® Multipurpose Pump
The VERSAX® is a versatile, rugged and economical twin-impeller self-priming pump powered by a Honda or a Briggs & Stratton Vanguard . It provides superior water-transfer performance as well as the ability to combat fire from greater distances and points of elevation. The VERSAX® is a...
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Agree, like to see Elon, Donald etc. back off, now is not the time.
About 100’ from the nozzel.
Fucking unbelievable
This is what's wrong with our society...catch em in the act waive the right to trial...maximum sentence automatically.
That is Excellent. Would you mind passing on some info in PM? Thanks. G. No worries I found it.
They should be under the jail.. Not in it.
But I'm sure the Good Samaritans were just checking to make sure there was no untended or injured pets that needed help. "Malik and Unique are good boys!"
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Everything in Altadena that I know and grew up with is gone.
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The corn rolls say all that needs to be said.
I gotta tell you.....where I was there in Tonto Hills the fires really concerned me. Every year they seemed to get closer and closer with the fire planes right over the house. I loved the property but I just feel that its location is a ticking time bomb.
Strap them into cheap orange life vests and drop them off in the middle of Puddingstone or whatever lake the Super Scoopers are drawing from.
Steve was one of my best friends growing up. Lost his bike shop next to the hardware store in Altadena.California
With firefighters stretched thin, Altadena residents battle to save homes from flames
Samuel Girma tries to prevent the spread of a fire next door on LaPaz Road in Altadena.
(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
By James Rainey
, Nathan Solis, Matthew Ormseth, Brittny Mejia and Melissa Gomez
Jan. 8, 2025 Updated 3:30 PM PT
As the winds whipped out of the north, and embers began to rain down, almost everyone had left J.C. Matsuura’s neighborhood in Altadena.
- The Eaton fire in unincorporated Altadena and nearby Pasadena burned more than 10,000 acres by Wednesday afternoon.
- Five people were dead of unknown causes, authorities said.
- The fire destroyed more than 100 structures.
But Matsuura had no intention of following the evacuation order issued as the Eaton fire rapidly spread Tuesday night, engulfing homes and businesses that stood in its path. Even after Matsuura’s wife left, taking the family dogs, the 65-year-old stood his ground.
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Armed only with a garden hose and determination, Matsuura kept the embers and flames away from his home of 20 years. It was not until a ghastly dawn that a fire crew from the U.S. Forest Service arrived. By then, homes on two sides of Matsuura’s had caught fire.
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Steve Salinas shields himself from intense heat as he hoses down a neighbor’s rooftop on Sinaloa Avenue in Altadena.
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With firefighters stretched thin, with three major fires burning in L.A. County as of Wednesday afternoon, residents such as Matsuura decided to stay and wage a battle to save their homes.
“We’re doing the very best we can. But no, we don’t have enough fire personnel in L.A. County between all the departments to handle this,” L.A. County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone said at a Wednesday news conference in downtown L.A.
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The Eaton fire had burned more than 10,000 acres near Altadena and Pasadena by Wednesday afternoon. Five people were dead, and several others were seriously injured, according to a spokesperson from the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department. More than 100 structures have been destroyed, Marrone said.
Fire and law enforcement officials strongly discourage people from staying in their homes, because it can put residents and first responders in grave danger. Marrone said officials have seen “a high number of significant injuries to residents who did not evacuate” from the Palisades fire about 24 miles to the west, which has charred more than 15,000 acres.
Matsuura said he wouldn’t leave, couldn’t leave, because of everything that his modest home on New York Avenue meant. He had built a business there — repairing motorcycles of all kinds, including collectors’ Ducatis and Harley Davidsons.
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“I stayed because this is my home, it’s my business. It’s a lot,” he said. “I didn’t want to lose it. I didn’t want my equipment to be burnt down. So I figured if I stayed long enough, I might be able to save it.”
As other residents fled the unincorporated community of Altadena on Tuesday night, they encountered an apocalyptic scene. Streets congested with evacuees. Windshields covered in ash. Downed trees. Lawns and homes catching fire around them.
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Fast-moving Eaton fire explodes in Pasadena, Altadena: ‘We’re not playing around. This is serious’
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Among the casualties? The Altadena Community Church. The local post office. An untold number of homes.
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Carter Johns was in his bedroom on Roosevelt Avenue when he heard sirens about 7:15 pm. The 17-year-old looked outside and saw the mountainside north of his family’s Altadena home was a sheet of flame.
Embers were sailing down on roofs, Johns recalled. He ran down the street banging on doors.
“People had no idea,” he said.
Los Angeles County firefighters arrive to fight a house fire on Sinaloa Avenue in Altadena.
(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
One frantic neighbor had a baby and no car, he said. Johns’ father took the woman and child with their family to his job site near the Rose Bowl, where they waited out the night.
As the fire spread Tuesday night, Casey Nunes, 28, drove from a band rehearsal back to his rented home in Altadena in an attempt to save some of his belongings. The sky was red and the air choked with smoke.
“It was pretty apocalyptic and cinematic in a weird way,” Nunes said.
While trying to navigate streets, Nunes watched a lawn catch on fire. His truck became engulfed in embers as he sped down roads, dodging fallen tree branches. When he finally reached the house, the fire was just 300 yards or so up the hillside. When Nunes stepped out of his car, he said, it felt as if someone had left a heater on. The howling wind sent ash into his eyes.
He grabbed family photos, his computer and valuable instruments, including guitars, recording equipment and speakers. As he left, he spotted a neighbor who told Nunes he planned to stay.
“I’m not going to let people rob my house,” the neighbor told him.
“That’s crazy,” Nunes said. “What’s there to rob if it burns down?”
Authorities later said two people were arrested for looting in the area of the Eaton fire.
After evacuating Tuesday night, Denise Norden and her husband, Greg, arrived to find several fires burning around their Altadena home before dawn Wednesday.
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Seeing no firefighters on their street, the couple — along with other residents — grabbed garden hoses, buckets and shovels. They hosed down their roofs and those of their neighbors. They soaked the plants and front yards as embers set off small fires around the neighborhood.
“We realized if we did not make a stand we would lose it all,” Denise Norden said.
Early Wednesday morning, Steve Salinas called his neighbor Jimmy Orlandini to say Orlandini’s front yard was on fire. Orlandini evacuated his family to Rancho Cucamonga but arrived back home in the early morning darkness to find other neighbors dousing homes.
When a home two doors down from Orlandini’s house caught fire, he and another neighbor climbed onto the roof to spray it down.
The heat and smoke rolled into Orlandini’s face. He sprayed his head with water and covered his face with his shirt.
“If the fire department would just get here, they could save it all,” said one woman, who declined to give her name.
About 8:30 a.m. a Los Angeles County fire engine appeared down the street. Exhausted neighbors cheered. One woman sobbed and ran to the corner pointing, crying out, “Please, save our homes.”
Firefighters were able to save the home where Orlandini and Salinas had made their stand. The side of the home was damaged, but it remained upright.
Others were not as fortunate.
On Wednesday morning, Kevin Tyson watched the smoldering wreckage of the medical buildings his family has owned for decades.
Piled outside the Two Palms Nursing Center were soot-stained gurneys and wheelchairs. Gutted and blackened by fire, the nursing home belched smoke as a fire crew doused the last stubborn flames lapping at what remained of the roof.
Next door, an AltaMed medical facility had collapsed on itself, its metal roof twisted in the heat of the flames that swept through Tuesday night.
Tyson, a retired internal medicine doctor, came that night to check on the medical compound that was once his family’s home.
“When my folks first moved to Pasadena in 1972, this is where we moved,” said Tyson, 54. “This is our family story.”
One of the family’s buildings wasn’t touched by flame: Crown City Rehabilitation, where Tyson’s sister still works.
“In the hopscotch of fate, you never know what’s going to survive,” he said. “This is the tragedy of fire.”
On Altadena Drive near Altadena Community Church, a sheriff’s deputy sat in a patrol car to keep drivers away from a downed power line. The church was engulfed in flames, and plumes of black, acrid smoke blanketed the intersection.
Nearby, Ned Fakhoury watched in panic as the church fire threatened his nearby Chevron station. He had been up since 4:30 a.m. helping friends evacuate. But now the gas station, which had been in his family since the 1980s, would probably be damaged.
Across the street, the Bunny Museum was on fire, its 46,000-plus rabbit-related items in grave danger.
“This is devastating,” Fakhoury said. “The whole city just got erased.”
At his home on Wednesday, Matsuura remained focused on his desperate task, dressed all in black with nothing but a black bandanna to filter the noxious air. He had persisted, even as the wind ripped composite tiles from his roof and sent branches, dirt and debris whipping through the air.
His home seemed safe, but Matsuura gestured at flames that still crackled less than 50 yards away.
“That’s what I’m worried about right there,” he said. “It ain’t over yet.”
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Wolf burger was good, not sure if it’s still there.
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Dei most likely...LA County Fire mistakenly sends out emergency evacuation alert to entire county
Another alert was issued shortly after announcing that it was only for areas near West Hills.
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