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Because the Eaton Fire consumed his Altadena home — along with his work truck and tools — Lorenzo Cervantes has no permanent place to live, and no way to make a living.
Now housed at the Pasadena Convention Center turned evacuation shelter, he and his wife lie on cots covered with Red Cross blankets, unable to sleep as they flash back to their night of terror.
“The fire kept coming and coming,” said Cervantes, a parishioner of Sacred Heart Church in Altadena. “It was on our heels. We had to drive for miles. We could see big balls of fire dropping around us because of the winds. I was panicking, we just needed to escape the flames.”