Videos appear to show moment Eaton Fire may have started

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Videos appear to show moment Eaton Fire may have started

From CNN's Sara Smart

Videos captured by nearby residents appear to show the moment the Eaton Fire began on Tuesday evening.

Pedro Rojas recorded video from the backyard of his Pasadena home around 6:24 p.m. on January 7 and told CNN that he and his family were evacuated within the next 20 minutes.

“It was a quiet night,” Rojas recalled. “After I was alerted by a neighbor about some flames in the back, I went to the backyard, took the video listening to the cracking of the fire, but never in my mind I thought it was going to grow that much to destroy the city.”

Rojas’ video shows flames at the base of an electrical transmission tower at 6:24 p.m. and by 6:41 p.m., he says he and his family evacuated.

Officials have not yet determined the cause of the ongoing fires, but they are investigating an electrical transmission tower in Eaton Canyon as the possible origin site of the Eaton Fire, according to the Los Angeles Times.

See the moment captured on video here:

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