An ABC news reporter spent just one night in her ‘dream home’ before it burned down in the devastating Los Angeles fires

Over the weekend, Zohreen Shah, a Los Angeles-based correspondent, opened up about her story of loss after the Palisades Fire burned down her newly-purchased house.
In a joint Instagram post with her husband Rishi Shah, she reflected on how they just closed on the coastal property less than a month ago and had just started moving in.
She explained that they spent only one night in their house, which they spent six years looking for until they finally found the ‘perfect’ one, before it burned down.
Alongside photos of their ‘sanctuary’ and the ruins that remains, the reporter described the heartbreaking loss as she made note of how much she sacrificed just to save up for the down payment.
She pointed out how much hard work she put into achieving her ‘dream of having what my parents didn’t have’ because her mother and father never owned a home.
‘I lost my home in the fires. It’s a total loss,’ she wrote in the caption of a joint Instagram post with her husband Rishi Shah as she shared photos of the ruins of what used to be their ‘dream home.’
She explained that she and her husband finally found the coastal property in November and closed on it over the holiday season on Christmas Eve.
They had just moved in before the fire burned down their new home in the Pacific Palisades.
‘We started moving in last week. Over and over, I told Rishi I couldn’t believe this sanctuary was ours. We spent one night there. Just one.’
She continued: ‘It was magical. We dreamed of retiring in that same home. Just five minutes from PCH, yet it felt like another planet.
‘Deer walked up to the home, the birds sounded like a tropical island, and the ocean view was the California dream,’ she wrote. ‘We had peach, nectarine, lemon, and avocado trees — and a small enclosure for lettuce and strawberries, safe from wildlife.
‘But it was more than all that,’ she added. ‘It was the culmination of Rishi’s six-year search for the perfect coastal home. He found it in November and we closed on Xmas Eve.
She said she was ‘so proud’ that she saved enough for the down payment after sacrificing traveling and having children.
She reflected on how she worked really hard because her mother and father never owned a home and she worked hard ‘with the dream of having what my parents didn’t have.’
‘I cook most meals at home, I haven’t had kids yet, and I don’t travel for fun. Because of this, over years, I saved enough for 20% of our down payment,’ she wrote. ‘I was so proud. And then — just like that — after years of working and saving, it was gone.’
She said that her friends have told them that they can now rebuild ‘the way we want’ but the house was ‘already perfect’ to her.
Shah acknowledged that they are ‘very lucky’ they are safe but admitted that they are still ‘so d*** sad.’
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