‘God Helped Me’: Altadena Man Fights Flames To Save His Home | California Wildfires | News9

oh man you guys I don't know take care yeah I will I'll I'll take you in the back so it's a little bit of a mess I cleaned up a little bit I going throw away this but Lu Mur Glam is going to be it's like 5 and 1/2 hours of War so that's it burn and because of that his air conditioning condenser bur my condenser is fine I I evacuated but uh I was watching some news clippings um and I realized the fires are out of control so I decided to come and take a

look and there was nobody on the way back nobody it was like Eerie uh flame um you know you know things with ambers uh flying around businesses on the right and left of Lake Avenue were burned out uh so I got scared so I kicked in you know just very lightly the nails popped off took this off and then I was I had a direct shot you can take a look there this is his garage collapsed but I was aiming basically at the next house my my water will go all the way to his driveway

phone because I wanted to I hear people in the military saying how when you going to the battle you basically are thinking all kinds of feelings about I don't know if I should be doing this and this and that but then they say once once you're in the front line you forget all about it basically you have to fight for your survival right so basically when I when I arrived here and I saw this I got in that mode all the way like this so I was trying to stop the and it's just like I

knew it can be done I mean I'm not stupid I did not uh want to come here to die for person for possessions but I knew was doable and I'll feel bad if I didn't try you know 11 11:25 p.m. I'm a Christian I don't go to church but I really believe that uh uh you know God helped here God help me I mean I promised a big candle when I go back to Greece and we do that I have a cat I'm going to close the door