ALTADENA, Calif. (KABC) -- Time is running out for a mainstay business in Altadena.

Two Dragons Martial Arts has been in the community for over 30 years, but the Eaton Fire burned it to the ground.

The owner wants to rebuild, but needs the community's help.

Shelene Hearring, known as Sipoo to the hundreds of students she has taught, doesn't see a dirt lot where the studio once stood. She sees a community legacy, hope and most importantly, home.

"It must come back. The only way that we are going to be really viable in this community is that we need to be here, we need to stay here," said Hearring, the owner of Two Dragons Martial Arts. "We need to be the beacon that holds this place together."

Hearring's Altadena business was one of hundreds reduced to rubble by the Eaton Fire. Eyewi

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