Woman Near L.A. Wildfire Says 'You Can Literally See It Move Across the Mountain' Due to the Winds (Exclusive)

TikTok users in California are sharing some scary views of the fires happening in the Los Angeles area.

Brielle Catrinar, a resident of Arcadia, Calif., shares just how close the fires in southern California are to her home. In a TikTok posted on Jan. 7, Catrinar, 25, records the view from her window, showing the fires burning on the other side of Route 210.

“The mountains are like, three miles away, I believe, for me,” Catrinar tells PEOPLE exclusively. “There’s a highway in between [me and the fire]... so I was probably going to be good, but they look really close.”

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The fires began in the Pacific Palisades, but due to the intense wind, multiple other blazes have cropped up around the Los Angeles area, including Eaton, Hurst and Woodley. Catrinar’s home is currently closest to the Eaton fire.

Though other parts of Arcadia have been evacuated, as of the morning of Jan. 8, she says that her home is not currently in an evacuation zone, but she has her car loaded and ready to go in case the fire continues to spread and puts her home in danger.

The Palisades Fire started in the morning on Jan. 7 while Catrinar was at work, as at the time she says she thought her area was “totally good." But later that evening the fire broke out on the mountains near her home. She says she was first alerted to the situation when she heard her neighbors shouting at each other, notifying each other of the blaze.

“That was when I first saw it,” she says. “And then the winds got stronger, which then made it move. And you can literally see it move across the mountain, which is crazy because [with] my view out the window, I could see it as it went to the right.”

Catrinar says she’s lived in California for four years now, spending time in both Santa Monica and Glendale before her move to Arcadia, but this is the first time she’s experienced a wildfire that’s come this close to her home.

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“I've never had it be where it could have affected me. I've obviously heard about things happening, but it's usually way far away from me and not anywhere near where I am,” she says. “As someone from the Midwest, this was kind of crazy to experience for the first time, because we don't have that out there.”

For now, Catrinar is hunkering down in her home, keeping in touch with those local to her as she waits for more updates on whether or not she’ll have to evacuate. She says she lost power and WiFi in her home the previous night and is preserving what charge she can on her devices while she waits.

“I'm preparing for it to be a little bit longer than today,” she says.

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