Actor Sebastian Harrison hides behind boulders without escape as LA fires destroy Malibu mansion: ‘It was hell’

Actor Sebastian Harrison hid behind rocks as his $2.4 million Malibu mansion was engulfed in flames after he was unable to escape due to car trouble.

“I stayed even though everybody, you know, the police came and said, ‘Evacuate,’ and everybody left, I was the only one there,” Harrison, 59, told the Telegraph.

Actor Sebastian Harrison hid behind rocks as his $2.4 million Malibu mansion was engulfed in flames after he was unable to escape due to car trouble. Instagram / @livia_pillmann

The B-movie star, who appeared in spaghetti westerns and other foreign films over the decades, rushed back to the beachfront property Tuesday night as fast-spreading wildfires began to ravage Los Angeles.

He said he helped get his 89-year-old father, also a former actor, before trying to protect the 3-acre property he bought in 2010. Harrison watered the house’s roof with a hose and removed his outdoor furniture – but it did not help, and the flame was soon at his doorstep.

“I stayed even though everybody, you know, the police came and they said, ‘Evacuate,’ and everybody left, I was the only one there,” Harrison said. Instagram / @livia_pillmann

“I’m still hiding behind the rocks,” Harrison said in a video posted on social media, showing his home completely engulfed in flames.

He said he tried to drive away in his Mercedes, but he couldn’t get it to start.

“It was hell. It was inferno … I really couldn’t see because of all the orange, breathing smoke and everything … I fell on my rib and then I just took cover behind the rocks and there were sheets of embers that just went over me,” he told the Telegraph.

“I stayed even though everybody, you know, the police came and they said, ‘Evacuate’ and everybody left, I was the only one there,” Harrison, 59, told the Telegraph. Instagram / @livia_pillmann
“I’m still hiding behind the rocks,” Harrison said in a video posted on social media, showing his home completely engulfed in flames. Instagram / @livia_pillmann

Eventually he found a working car and drove through the streets, filming the hellish landscape around him. Firefighters came to his rescue around 9 p.m., and moments later the car burst into flames.

Harrison described his journey to safety as “treacherous”.