A heartbreaking video posted by actor Cameron Mathison illustrates the devastation suffered by Los Angeles residents from the California wildfires.

The actor, best known for his work on soap operas like “General Hospital” and “All My Children,” captured footage of himself driving through his Altadena neighborhood while it was engulfed in flames.

Although Mathison initially posted the footage in an Instagram storyit is without sound. As he later shared the video with CNNHowever, the station aired the audio – including a distraught Mathison whimpering and wailing as he filmed the heartbreaking scene from his car.

“I’ve actually never heard sounds like that come out of me,” Mathison told CNN’s Laura Coates after rewatching his footage on air. “So it was very strange. It was just, um, kind of guttural pain and disbelief and shock and fear as I approached my property and didn’t see the house.”

The actor told “Good Morning America” ​​on Thursday that he was out to dinner in Pasadena on Tuesday when he first noticed the Eaton Fire in the distance, which Mathison described at the time as just a “little bright spot.”

“I think I saw the Eaton Canyon fire start,” Mathison told GMA. “I mean, it was just a little blip. And I thought, ‘Well, that’s not good.'”

Despite seeing the flames, Mathison decided to go out to dinner, and while he was in the restaurant, his phone began to “explode” because the smaller fire he had seen earlier “had ignited and spread so quickly.”

“I ran home and packed up a bag with what I was wearing… and went to stay with my daughter and her mother at an apartment here in Pasadena, and then while we were watching the news, I… “It’s clear that this could be bad,” recalls Mathison.

He told CNN that he was particularly concerned when he recognized his neighbors’ houses on the news.

“I just couldn’t take it anymore, so I got in the car,” Mathison told CNN.

He told GMA that he then drove back to his house a second time and decided to film the horrific scene.

Despite the flames and smoke, he managed to return to his house to get “passports and birth certificates and all the photo albums I could get.”

Mathison also decided to share another video on Instagram showing the damage to his own home. In the caption he wrote:

“This is what’s left of our beautiful home. Our home where our children grew up and where they hoped to one day raise their own.”

Mathison told CNN his block in Altadena has been “completely decimated.”

“In many cases it looked like houses had never been built there,” he told CNN.

Although Mathison appeared traumatized in his two interviews with CNN and “GMA,” he told the latter that it pained him that many others were feeling the same pain.

“It’s so outrageous. So many people with so much loss,” he told “GMA.” “It’s still very disturbing and so surreal – and when you think about the hundreds and hundreds of people going through the same thing, it’s just… devastating.”