The sister of Californian Victor Shaw, who died clinging to a hose while trying to save the family home from the Eaton fire, remembers his last moments.

Sister of California man who died while protecting his family house with a garden hose of Eaton Fire recalled his last moments with his brother while trying to get him to leave the danger zone.

Victor Shaw, 66, was sleeping inside the Altadena bungalow he shared with his younger sister on Monterosa Drive. when the fire He went down the nearby mountain and came to the dead end.

“Victor, we have to get out!” Shari Shaw recalled yelling at her brother: reported the LA Times. “We have to get out of here!”

The eldest Shaw, who suffered from diabetes and chronic kidney disease that made it difficult for him to move, did not wake up to his younger sister’s frantic screaming and shaking.

“Victor, the fire is coming,” he said, kicking him in the foot. “It’s not safe to stay.”

The kick was enough to wake Victor up but he was not willing to leave his home.

“Okay, let me sit here for a few minutes,” he said.

Shari, who had been carrying some of her belongings to her car, urged her brother to get up as the fire was rapidly approaching, but he did not relent as he said he wanted to stay back and protect his home.

Shari called her brother again but got no answer.

She fled outside to the car and turned around to see the house burst into flames.

“I had to get out because the embers were so big and flying like a firestorm that I had to save myself,” he said. he told KTLA Wednesday night.

Victor’s body was later found by a family friend on the side of the road, still clutching the garden hose in an apparent attempt to save the house he has lived in since 1965.

When she returned to the burned house, Shari couldn’t imagine what her brother went through in his final moments.

“I couldn’t be here, I couldn’t be here to save him. “I couldn’t be here, that’s what hurts the most,” he said. he told ABC News.

Victor’s cause of death was ruled as smoke inhalation and thermal injuries, the Los Angeles County medical examiner announced.

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