Sirens turned on above us and helicopter blades screeched.
As I helped her get to a safe area, she told me she had been walking her dogs and planned to go to the grocery store when she smelled a strong smell of smoke.
She returned home, looked out her windows and watched the fire move quickly through the Hollywood Hills a block from her home.
She collected what she could: food, clothes, blankets, food for her three little dogs.
“I can’t believe it,” she said in exhaustion.
Makayla Jackson, 26, held his two-year-old son, Ramari, on a street corner while they waited for a ride. They were evacuated from a homeless shelter that was in danger of burning down.
“They just told us to get out and go,” she told me.
She said she is headed to Hollywood High School, where more help is offered.
