Muir High athletic director Alfredo Resendiz and the school’s football coach, Lance Mitchell, said Wednesday morning they had already heard countless stories about students’ families devastated by the Eaton fire that was burning in Altadena and nearby areas.

Resendiz was at his mother’s house in Pasadena on Wednesday clearing ash and embers away from her home.

He described the scene around Muir on Tuesday night as “apocalyptic.”

“As you drove down Lake, you could feel the heat in your car,” Resendiz said. “Everything on both sides of the street was burning down. It was horrifying. Franklin Elementary burned down. The fire was hop-scotching and spreading across Lincoln. It’s real close to Muir. We’re all concerned.”

It’s still too early to tell how many students and athletes have been impacted by the fires, but as Wednesday morning came, everyone’s phone was busy.

“It’s just devastating, it’s tragic,” Resendiz said. “You hear kids and they’re in the state of shock, it happened so quickly. This is 100 times worse than anything you could ever imagine.”

Muir had several athletic events scheduled against Hoover on Wednesday, but all sports were canceled and will remain canceled indefinitely until an advisory is issued by the Pasadena Unified School District.

“Right now, we don’t know when school will open up again. Our students are dealing with ‘tough-life’ situations,” Resendiz said. “We’re at the epicenter in Altadena. So many of our students lost their homes.

“We’re hearing so many stories of families trying to figure out where they’re going to go. This is just devastating for so many that go to school here. We won’t know the full impact on our students and families for a while, probably. We’re still in the middle of this.”

Mitchell, who also is a Muir alum, has deep concern for his players and their classmates.

“I’ve heard from a few of them — it’s tough, man,” Mitchell said. “They’re trying to figure out where they’re going to live. Whether you lost your home or not, most of them (students) have had to evacuate because of the fires.”

Mitchell said he fears that his father’s house in Altadena, the home where he grew up, might have been lost in the fire.

“That’s what we’re hearing from friends, but we don’t know for sure,” Mitchell said. “We won’t be able to get in there and check on it for a while. I live in Monrovia and we were asked to evacuate (Wednesday morning). You can see the fires in the mountain areas near Arcadia, Monrovia and Duarte. It’s sad, really sad.”