SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) -- More than 180,000 people have evacuated Los Angeles because of the five major wildfires burning in the city. Many left with nothing more than a suitcase. Some are carrying their valuables with them, but this devastating situation has even brought several people down to San Diego. So far as of Thursday night, 13,690 acres burned in the Eaton Fire, displacing hundreds of people on the eastside. Brendan Fitzgibbons, a writer and comedian in Los Angeles, shows FOX 5/KUSI the dozens of text messages he received from his loved ones as the fire closed in on his apartment. "Get out now! Please, this is so scary,” his aunt begged.   He says he evacuated with a group of friends, and now they're just trying to make the best of the situation. “Hi, welcome to my new Airbnb/home. I’m Brendan. Come on in," he said. "This is not my kitchen, but it looks nice.” With nothing but a suitcase full of his essentials and his dog, he traveled down to San Diego on Wednesday night. "I was literally like throwing things in this suitcase from my apartment," he said. "I just grabbed everything that I had.” The Eaton Fire burned down more than 5,000 structures and killed five people right by Fitzgibbons’ apartment. “As I'm driving back to my apartment on the eastside, I look over in the distance towards where the Eaton canyon fire was, and I saw a fire, and I was like ‘oh, that’s not good,’” he recalled. In a panic and unsure of a safe location, he ultimately decided to book an Airbnb out of town with his friends. How did the wildfires in Los Angeles start? “I just felt so good to get out," he said. Now, he’s living in a place that’s not his own. “Cool thing about Airbnb is at least this feels like a home,” he said as he walked us through the house. Fitzgibbons remains on the waitlist to get help from Airbnb, but Christoph Gorder with the company says they’ve helped provide more than 2,000 people with aid. “We’ve probably helped more people in the last 24 hours than the first two weeks of the Maui wildfires,” Gorder said. They’re working to provide many more with credits for a seven-day stay. “We’ve had such a huge outpouring of need and demand,” he said asking for people to be patient as they work through the applications. While Fitzgibbons says he’s unsure whether his apartment’s still standing or when he can go home, he says he’s grateful to be in San Diego. “I know some people that are fully homeless like I’m lucky that for now I have this,” he said. There’s still so much uncertainty for residents in L.A., especially what life looks like after the fires are put out. Fitzgibbons tells FOX 5/KUSI because he’s pursuing a career in the arts, he’s unsure what that looks like as the city rebuilds, so he may end up moving out of L.A .to find work. The Entertainment Community Fund has set up an account to donate. You can find more resources on how to help here.