LOS ANGELES—When Anthony Ray Souza got an alert on his phone to evacuate his home in Altadena at the start of the Eaton Canyon fire, he and his wife grabbed what they could—birth certificates, social security cards, photos—and fled.
They ended up at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, now converted into a shelter for evacuees of the fire—which has leveled most of Altadena, tearing through more than 13,000 acres and still only three percent contained as of Friday.
“It was one of the saddest things you could see, because all the senior citizens were there. Rows and rows of nothing but seniors from convalescent homes, screaming in pain and crying,” Souza told The Epoch Times….