Shalom was on the Pepperdine campus as the devastating Franklin Fire approached Malibu, and this grim footage captures her view of the unforgiving flames. "These videos were taken when my roommates and I were ordered to evacuate to Payson Library at around 1:46 a.

But rather than run away from the impending blaze, some 3,000 students at Pepperdine University headed toward two buildings at the heart of the 830-acre campus to shelter in place. The protocol at the Christian university with picturesque views of the Pacific Ocean may seem to defy logic to those accustomed to scenes elsewhere in wildfire-prone California of thousands of residents evacuating fire zones in lengthy caravans of cars.