LA mom "watched her home burn via TikTok video" while on vacation

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A mom feels "blessed" her family is still alive after watching her house burn down on a stranger's TikTok video while on vacation.  Laura Camuglia-Byrnes, 56, was away for a few days at Joshua Tree National Park, California, with her cat and dog, when the wildfires started.  Two days into her trip she received a message from her two daughters to say flames at Eaton Canyon from their house and were evacuating their home.  Laura knew her neighbourhood would be next - and took to TikTok to track the fire.  She was horrified when she discovered a stranger's video which showed her home burning.  Former business owner Laura says her entire town has burned down and she has lost everything.  Despite the loss, Laura said it is a "miracle" and she is "blessed" that her friends and family are still alive.

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00:00my beautiful house in Altadena casa de overlord before and after I've never had

00:10a view of the house in back of mine before except that house also burned

00:14down everything on the block burned down essentially look at my chimney though my

00:19chimney is like F you I stand defiant the funny thing is the only reason I was

00:28in Los Angeles was to put my house up for sale that's not gonna happen now but

00:37at least it means I get back to go back to Europe that much sooner Jesus Christ

00:44this is amazing this is truly amazing I can't really believe this I had put a

00:50bunch of stuff in the storage container which seems like it's okay so it's gonna

00:56be interesting to see what happened to the contents of that whenever I return

01:03which God knows when that's gonna be but you know I'm gonna have to go and get

01:07that out of there but that's like the only thing like I had a basement and and

01:11it's clear the basement is is all gone to all the water was burned out of the

01:16pool like there's no water in the pool it's insane

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