Man Shares How He Spent Hours Battling Eaton Fire: ‘Apocalyptic’ [Video]

Stephen Warren had hoped the flames from the Eaton fire wouldn’t reach his street in Altadena.

The blaze, which started on January 7 amid fierce winds, was still quite a way from the community and seemed to be moving in a different direction as he and others monitored it that night.

But as he prepared for bed, he grew worried.

Warren, a building inspector who lives on and manages a property on Acacia Street with three houses for the owners, told the owner’s daughter that she should leave just in case.

“Around 10:30, I started noticing it getting closer, and I said, ‘Oh my gosh, I think it’s going to hit this way,'” Warren, 49, told Newsweek.

Just a few hours later, at around 3:30 a.m, the smell of smoke roused him from sleep. “I …