Zooey and Emily Deschanel reveal heartbreak as childhood home burns down in LA fires torching family photos & heirlooms
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STAR sisters Zooey and Emily Deschanel are the latest celebs to have had their beloved home, containing family photos and heirlooms, razed in the Palisades fire. New Girl actress Zooey, 45, shared heartbreaking images of the pair's childhood home completely decimated by the blaze - just one of the 12,300 structures destroyed in the worst wildfire in LA's history.
![[Emily Deschanel and Zooey Deschanel at the Lion King premiere.]](https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/01/emily-deschanel-zooey-deschanel-attend-891262346.jpg?strip=all&w=628)
The devastating Palisades fire has ripped through 23,713 acres and destroyed exceptionally expensive celebrity properties - including pads belonging to Paris Hilton and Mel Gibson. Zooey wrote a heartfelt tribute to the "marvel" of her 1920s Spanish revival home which was "one of the oldest" in the Palisades.
![[White stucco house with red tile roof.]](https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/01/taken-without-permission-zooey-emily-964648515.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
The star reflected on her childhood home, calling it "spectacularly beautiful" that was "full of too many incredible memories to count". She wrote in the heartbreaking post: "It was not a mansion but it was cozy and lovely and unique and perfect to me.
![[Burned-out remains of a building.]](https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/01/taken-without-permission-zooey-emily-964648514.jpg?strip=all&w=522)
"One of my friends growing up called it ‘The Church’ because the 14 foot ceilings with stained glass windows in the living room cast colorful shadows at the end of the day. "And to me, it was holy, a sanctuary where we felt most safe.". Zooey also went on to tell tales of family Christmas dinners, Easter egg hunts, trick or treating, weddings, birthdays and baby showers - all memories that were held in the rubble of the destroyed home.
![[Zooey Deschanel, Emily Deschanel, and their parents.]](https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/01/taken-without-permission-zooey-emily-964648516.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
She added: "We celebrated the best moments of our lives there". Not only did the family lose their house, but everything inside it too. Zooey said: "The family photos that lined the hallways, the artwork, the piano I learned to play on, the wedding china, the furniture my great great grandfather built - the reminders of generations past: All have vanished into thin air.".
![[Zooey and Emily Deschanel eating in a kitchen.]](https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/01/taken-without-permission-zooey-emily-964648510.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
