HONOLULU (KHON2) -- A Hawaii resident who just bought and moved into his Los Angeles home needed to evacuate due to the fast-growing Eaton wildfire. Get Hawaii's latest morning news delivered to your inbox, sign up for News 2 You Brian Lee and his wife, Youna, were excited for the new year after moving into their new home a month ago. "It's been a rollercoaster, to say the least. I mean, we just closed on this house before the new year, went back home to Hawaii, actually to spend the year with my family. And I came back and then, you know, this is just a really tough way to start the new year," said Brian. Kaimuki grad catches harrowing moments of California fires on camera With the Altadena fire burning dangerously close to their new investment, they knew it was time to go, even more so because they are expecting their first child. "Nothing was transpiring at the time and kind of around 3 a.m., I looked out the window. It was still fine. So I went back to bed and then by 5 a.m. when I looked out the window again, it was just smoke everywhere. The sky was red. So I told my wife it was time to go." "I think if it was myself, I might have stayed kind of just to see how things went down. But I didn't want to risk it with my wife. So we went immediately to my uncle's place." It's the first fire he's had to deal with since moving to Southern California, but it's not the first time a major fire has forced a change in his plans. He came home to get married in the summer of 2023, just four days after the deadly Lahaina wildfire. "I had friends that couldn't make it because of the fires. And, you know, that was on the same weekend. So I got married with a heavy heart." Lee said for now it appears their new home is safe, but what's happening in their surrounding areas is almost beyond belief. Find more Hawaii, Oahu, Maui and Kauai news here "You never think that this is going to happen until it really does. And it's really eerie just going outside and looking at the sky. It almost seems like it's something out of a movie. I know a few people that have lost their homes over and the past day and it's just been I can't imagine what they're going through."