Raya Rengana, a CPR instructor for first responders, shared her harrowing experience of being trapped in her home in the Altadena community of Los Angeles County during the devastating Eaton Fire. Rengana, who had lived in her house for 28 years, described the heart-wrenching moment when she realized she was surrounded by flames with no power.
She recounted, 'I woke up and it was just pitch black. We had no power, and I was just in hell. I was just surrounded by flames all around me, and all I could do is just hold my water hose, and just I dropped to my knees, and I just started praying, ‘Please, God, please, just save my house! Just save my house! This is, this is all I have.’'
