FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A Central Valley native was one of the hundreds who had to pack up the essentials and flee as the Eaton Fire chews through homes. Helena Calloway, originally from Fresno, has lived in Pasadena for the past six years. She evacuated around 7:30 a.m. Wednesday after she was alerted on her phone. "It's just been total chaos," Calloway said. Throughout the night, Calloway said they experienced dangerous and forceful winds, which destroyed the area even before the fire arrived, leaving her without power and worried about what was to come. "The paint is off my house, all the branches fell out of my tree, so I'm pretty sure by now it's down to the ground, so much ashes, everywhere," she said. Three of her family members have already lost their homes to the fire.  Now she and her sister are praying that their homes remain untouched. "I feel like we didn't really know what to do or the seriousness of it, it was kind of like, 'Should we go? Should we not? Is it affecting us? Should we be panicking, should we get a room?' So like before you knew, it was like, evacuate." And she's not alone -Altadena resident, Lauren Abron said she grew concerned when she saw elderly residents from a nursing home being loaded onto buses. "And all of a sudden law enforcement came from everywhere, fire department, everybody is going over there with busses, they got them out, never did knock on my door to tell me there's fire all around me, but they got them out, and as we were loading our car up, one of the officers looked at me nodded his head, like, 'Yes,'" Abron said. Both ladies have evacuated and are safe, however, they don't know what they'll return to when the fire is contained.