A Los Angeles man is being hailed as a hero after running into a dangerous fire zone with a garden hose and saving eight of his neighbors’ homes from the Eaton blaze.
“So when I arrived here, the back of my house was on fire. I could see my eaves when I drove up the street. So I got out the hose … I put my yard out,” Pete Villani, a cinematographer who lives in the neighborhood of Altadena, told CBS News:
“Then I went over here to my neighbor’s house, and the fence was on fire … I put that out,” he described, as he pointed at the adjacent home.
Villani, who has credits on major movies including the third installments in both the Spider-Man and Rush Hour series, said he then left the neighborhood for “a couple hours,” only to come back to find the flames getting dangerously close to another…
