00:00This is my last 24 hours as a Pepperdine student on campus during the Franklin Fire in Malibu.
00:06Good morning everyone, it is about 12.50 a.m.
00:10We have been woken up by helicopters, planes, firefighters at Pepperdine because there's a fire.
00:19I'm documenting this because this is crazy.
00:24Now we are officially being evacuated to the library.
00:28We have finals tomorrow.
00:31Today, it's today!
00:33This is horrifying.
00:37Once we got outside, we immediately had our first fire sighting and it smelled really strongly of smoke on our way to the cafeteria.
00:44So they gave us these masks, it's pretty smoky in here.
00:48Our finals tomorrow are canceled, thank goodness.
00:52Because me and Olivia didn't lock in like we should.
00:54Yeah.
00:55After about an hour of sitting in the caf, the sky outside, the window started turning bright orange and we could see the flames.
01:03I was pretty panicked when they got closer to the building so I turned on the news until I fell asleep.
01:07I woke up, I laid across these chairs and this mask has made like indentations on my face.
01:15It's totally smoky in here but it feels better.
01:19I'm assuming this building is functioning on a generator because we've had lights and power in here the whole time.
01:25Which has been a huge blessing because I can't imagine how much scarier this would have been if we were in the dark.
01:31They served us breakfast at around 5 and we saw the sun rise.
01:34It was really eerie and apocalyptic outside.
01:37Around 2 or 3 hours later, they finally let us go.
01:41These are the flames that they could see from the library.
01:45We were able to see some of the damage even though it was pretty smoky.
01:48We're still masked. It's horrible breathing conditions.
01:52But Ruby is here.
01:54Claudia's car survived.
01:56We saw a lot of smoking areas and residue from the fire and some of the burnt areas on our way back to our dorm.
02:03We thought this was the end of everything although have now been informed that it is still burning.
02:08As I record this, my roommates and I are off campus praying for the best.
02:12We are back in the dorm.
02:16I don't have any service. There's no power, but the water is working.
02:20Claudia's jumping in the shower. I'm out.
02:23Feeling really blessed to be alive and safe.
02:27We are so thankful for all of the firefighters and first responders and everyone at Pepperdine.
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