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(NewsNation) — Pepperdine University students were among galore Malibu residents subjected to the Franklin Fire currently raging successful Southern California.
Crews with the Los Angeles County Fire Department responded to the blaze, dubbed the Franklin Fire, adjacent Malibu Canyon Road and Station Boundary astatine astir 10:45 p.m.
As of 2 a.m., the occurrence was mapped astatine 853 acres with nary containment. The origin of the fire was nether investigation.
Nicholas Gerding, a pupil astatine Pepperdine University, joined "NewsNation Now" to sermon however adjacent the Franklin wildfire came to their shelter-in-place spot connected campus.
"The worst portion was erstwhile it was close up against the windows of the library, and that was the scariest due to the fact that they ordered america to enactment distant from those windows, and we each benignant of huddled successful the mediate of the room for astir 30 minutes earlier those fires were benignant of taken attraction of," Gerding said.
"There were astir 30 minutes wherever I genuinely did not cognize if I was going to beryllium good oregon not. ... It was truly looking similar it wasn't going to spell well, and coming to presumption with the information my beingness mightiness extremity contiguous was a hard 30 minutes to beryllium done and benignant of manage," helium added.
Shelter-in-place orders person since been lifted, with students either choosing to permission campus, instrumentality to their dorms oregon stay successful the library, according to Gerding.
