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at Zibby Owens. Fire. We are safe, but we are destroyed. The horrific Palisades fire, the most

destructive fire in U.S. history, started just feet away from our home in the

Pacific Palisades two days ago. Life has been a living nightmare since then, when we first saw

footage of the fire on our nest camera, the flames dancing devilishly in our backyard.

We've gone through every emotion as we've waited for news from friends, watching footage,

trying to find information, mourning the loss of the life we were leading.

So many of our friends have now lost their homes.

Any updates?

It's gone.

We lost everything.

Nothing left.

We lost it.

Literally, everyone I know in the Palisades has lost all of their possessions.

How is this possible? I was just there. Everything was fine. Kyle and I are still waiting for a

complete update about our home, which we watched firefighters save early on before the fire spread on the nest video stream.

They heroically put out flames in our shed and the hedges, but then the flames came back before we lost

service. However, late last night, we found a video online from a man on a motorbike zipping through

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