“MY HUSBAND saw a glow on the hill,” explains Laurie Bilotta. She’s standing in her backyard in Pasadena pointing at Eaton Canyon, a popular hiking spot. Her eyes are trained on the spot where the Eaton Fire broke out on January 7th. In the few seconds it took for Bob, her husband, to yell “fire!”, the flames had grown to her height. Then “the whole mountain just exploded. There were just flames everywhere.” The couple grabbed their two Siamese cats and drove south towards safety. By some miracle their house survived.