It was after midnight on Wednesday when “The Ark” writer and producer John-Paul Nickel and his wife Jennifer Nickel, a costume designer on “Gotham Knights,” were on the Target Rooftop in La Canada, Flintridge watching as the Eaton fire spread. “It was like something out of Mount Doom in ‘Lord of the Rings,’” John-Paul Nickel says.
John-Paul Nickel and Jennifer Nickel were wondering if the wave of fire was going to hit their home. They had evacuated before any evacuation orders had been issued. “We were getting flying embers the size of credit cards coming at our house,” Jennifer Nickel recalls when asked what prompted them to leave.
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