Actor Sebastian Harrison hid behind rocks as his $2.4 million Malibu mansion was engulfed in flames when he was unable to flee due to car troubles.
“I stayed, even though everyone, you know, the police came and they said, ‘Evacuate,’ and everyone had left, I was the only one there,” Harrison, 59, told the Telegraph.
The B-movie star, who appeared in spaghetti Westerns and other foreign films over the decades, rushed back to the beachfront property Tuesday night as fast-spreading wildfires began devastating Los Angeles.
He said he helped get his 89-year-old father, who is also a former actor, before trying to protect the 3-acre property he purchased in 2010. Harrison watered the roof of the home with a hose and removed his outdoor furniture — but it was no help and the blaze was soon at his doorstep.
“I’m still hiding behind the boulders,” Harrison said in a video posted on social media, showing his home completely swallowed by flames.
He said he tried to drive away in his Mercedes but couldn’t get it to start.
“It was hell. It was inferno … I really couldn’t see because of all the orange, breathing smoke and everything … I fell on my rib, and then I just took cover behind the rocks, and there were sheets of embers just going over me,” he told the Telegraph.
He eventually found a working car and drove through the streets, filming the hellish landscape around him. Firefighters came to his rescue around 9 p.m. and, moments later, the car caught fire.
Harrison described his journey to safety as “treacherous.”
