Tabitha Snavely tells PEOPLE she woke up on Tuesday to an evacuation alert
A lifelong California resident who fled her Pacific Palisades apartment amid the devastating Los Angeles wildfires says this is the second time she’s been closely touched by a natural disaster, as her grandparents’ home burned down 21 years ago.
Tabitha Snavely tells PEOPLE she woke up on Tuesday to an evacuation alert and initially “wasn’t too concerned.”
“I just took a screenshot and I sent it to my mom, and a few minutes later, she called me and said, ‘Hey, isn’t Palisades Drive like, 400 feet from your apartment?’, and that’s when I kind of realized how close it was to me,” Snavely says. “So I just as soon as I heard that it was, you know, a block away, I started throwing as as many clothes as I could in a suitcase to get out of there.”…