SoCal hit by mudslides, flooding as powerful storm slams region

An Altadena woman who lost her home in the Eaton Fire described the double heartbreak following the devastating fire and now the mudslides.

An Altadena woman who lost her home in the Eaton Fire described the double heartbreak following the devastating fire and now the mudslides.

"We're trying to get a little hope," she started to say, before her voice broke with emotion.

She was near Mendocino Street and Tanoble Drive Friday morning, where walls of mud cleared by emergency crews were piled high along the streets in her neighborhood.

She said she lost her home in the Eaton Fire, but she and her family continue to drive by their property every day.

"We keep coming back everyday to just get a sense of 'we still have a home' when we really don't," she told Eyewitness News. "But it feels like you've abandoned your child, almost, so we just come back to our house."

She drove by her property on Thursday and witnessed the downpours, so she came back on Friday to survey the damage.

She said she plans on rebuilding.

"We want to come back. We want to be able to walk these streets and enjoy the sunshine, our palm trees and our neighbors, which we love," she said.

Sierra Madre resident Rob Salinas, who lives right near the mountain, witnessed the torrential downpours and the resulting debris flow with a bird's eye view.

Sierra Madre resident Rob Salinas witnessed the torrential downpours and the resulting debris flow with a bird's eye view.

Salinas saw the debris basin below his home started to overflow and said it filled with about 18 feet of debris in about 15 minutes.

His camera was rolling as he saw a Jacuzzi being carried away by rushing rain water. "There goes the Jacuzzi," he says in the recording.

"We were watching it, and we saw a wall of water come down, and a little bit more, and then a little bit more, and then it started to rain really hard. I've never seen that. We've lived here for 37 years and we've seen a lot of water come down that canyon, but nothing like that," Salinas said.

Amid the California storm, Northern California firefighters rescued two dogs trapped by rising water levels.

Northern California is also feeling the impact of the storm. In Butte County, firefighters saved two dogs trapped in the middle of a river.

Cal Fire shared a video of the moment a crew used an inflatable dinghy to rescue the dogs on Feather River.

The dogs were found trapped on an island, clinging to tree branches sticking out of the water.

The dogs were cooperative as firefighters lifted them from the current and into the dinghy.

PCH is a muddy mess and remains shut down until further notice after heavy rain caused thick mud and debris to cover the major highway.

PCH is a muddy mess and remains shut down until further notice after heavy rain caused thick mud and debris to cover the major highway.

There were multiple mudslides in the area Thursday night, including along Big Rock Drive and at Las Flores Canyon. In some areas, mud swept out into all of the lanes.

In other areas, the rain caused burned branches and even trash cans to be pushed onto PCH.