Hollywood Workers, Still Reeling From Five Years Of Economic Turmoil, Turn To Collective Action In Wake Of L.A. Wildfires

deadline.com:

Seriina Covarrubias was baking herself a birthday cake in her Altadena home when the wildfire in Eaton Canyon broke out on the evening of January 7.

Within an hour, she lost power and cell service as she and her husband raced to evacuate. “I knew we had to get out of there, because there was going to be no way that we were even going to know what was happening,” the film director and screenwriter told Deadline. “We made sure to buy our house away from the mountain, because I didn’t want to ever have to deal with this, and it didn’t matter.

It stretched all the way to our block.” Her house is one of the only structures on the block still standing, thanks to a volunteer fighting the fire nearby who flagged down a fire truck when the garage went up in flames.

Covarrubias and her husband are two of the thousands of victims of the historic Palisades and Eaton wildfires that burned more than 40,000 acres in Los Angeles County last month, resulting in more than $60 billion in economic losses.