ABC News reporter spent one night in Los Angeles ‘dream home’ before it burned down in wildfire
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‘As much as I’m determined to rebuild with Rishi, we are also so damn sad,’ reporter Zohreen Shah noted. An ABC News correspondent reveals she spent just one night in her “dream home” before it turned to rubble during the devastating wildfires raging in Los Angeles.
![[ABC News correspondent Zohreen Shah reveals her ‘dream home’ was destroyed in the wildfires and posted a heartbreaking message online]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/15/15/IMG_3790.jpg)
Zohreen Shah and her husband lost their “magical” new home in Malibu before the Palisades fire destroyed it, she wrote in a post on Instagram. “Over and over, I told Rishi I couldn’t believe this sanctuary was ours. We spent one night there. Just one,” she wrote.
![[Shah said she spent just one night in her dream home before the wildfires devoured it]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/15/16/abcs-zohreen-shah-loses-recently-96726392-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg)
“As much as I’m determined to rebuild with Rishi, we are also so damn sad. I know we are very lucky - we are safe. But I ping-pong between feeling like a stronger, wiser version of myself and curling up into a scared, 4-year-old version.”. The pair had found the home in November, closed on the house on Christmas Eve and started moving in last week. The home was just five minutes from Pacific Coast Highway, which was ravaged by the blaze.
![[“I’m determined to find answers. This journey is personal. I hope when people see me on TV or TikTok, they know they’re watching someone who saw her dream home turn to rubble — and is fighting to build it back again,” she said]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/15/15/IMG_3796.jpg)
The correspondent was “so proud” to have bought the home because her parents didn’t own a home growing up. “Like so many, I worked, I saved, and sacrificed with the dream of having what my parents didn’t have,” she wrote. After years of cooking most meals at home and not traveling for fun, she said she saved enough to afford 20 percent of the down payment. “And then — just like that — after years of working and saving, it was gone.”.
