Large burning embers are seen flying through the air during the Eaton fire in Altadena Wednesday Jan. 8, 2025. Hundreds of homes have burned in the northern and eastern areas of Altadena which sits next to the San Gabriel Mountains north of Pasadena. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

Hundreds of evacuees from the devastating Eaton fire gathered in hallways of the Pasadena Convention Center on Wednesday, Jan. 8, amid gray, smoky skies, while ash rained down outside of the glass doors.

Ashley Sharp was in an Altadena neighborhood that was devastated by the Eaton Fire. Instead of mourning the dead and the devastating destruction that has befallen the city of Los Angeles due to raging wildfires,