Actor Sebastian Harrison hid behind rocks as his $2.4 million Malibu mansion was engulfed in flames when he was unable to flee attributable to automotive troubles.
“I stayed, even though everyone, you know, the police came and they said, ‘Evacuate,’ and everyone had left, I was the only one there,” Harrison, 59, informed the Telegraph.
The B-movie star, who appeared in spaghetti Westerns and different overseas movies over the many years, rushed again to the beachfront property Tuesday night time as fast-spreading wildfires started devastating Los Angeles.
He stated he helped get his 89-year-old father, who can be a former actor, earlier than making an attempt to guard the 3-acre property he bought in 2010. Harrison watered the roof of the house with a hose and eliminated his outside furnishings — nevertheless it was no assist and the blaze was quickly at his doorstep.
“I’m still hiding behind the boulders,” Harrison stated in a video posted on social media, displaying his residence fully swallowed by flames.
He stated he tried to drive away in his Mercedes however couldn’t get it to start out.
“It was hell. It was inferno … I really couldn’t see because of all the orange, breathing smoke and everything … I fell on my rib, and then I just took cover behind the rocks, and there were sheets of embers just going over me,” he informed the Telegraph.
He finally discovered a working automotive and drove by means of the streets, filming the hellish panorama round him. Firefighters got here to his rescue round 9 p.m. and, moments later, the automotive caught hearth.
Harrison described his journey to security as “treacherous.”
