When singer Vanessa Amorosi swapped Melbourne for life in Los Angeles eight years ago, she didn't expect this - flames frighteningly close to her home away from home.
As fire tore through the outskirts of LA in November last year, the Aussie singer filmed clips of her home, along with several other high profile celebrities.
"Within 20 minutes, the fire was on top of us, it was insane," Amorosi recalled to 9News.
Then came the eeriness of what was left behind. And Amorosi confronted what she'd feared the most.
The blaze destroyed the singer's make-shift recording studio.
"This was the most important thing - this shipping container," she said, adding it was even more important than the house.
"Yeah I think I would have been much happier losing the house, which is so ungrateful.
"This is where I kept all of my valuables and plaques and everything I've worked for since I was a kid, it was all kept in here with the idea of building my dream studio.
"I had microphones that I'd done certain records on stored in here, collectable guitars, all my plaques."
Everything else on her Canoga Park property survived, even the gum trees.
"It's all my achievements it's home,” she said.
"I really can't explain it, it's irreplaceable that's what's so devastating."
However, the singer is trying to remain positive and sees the loss of her Aussie memories as a chance to shed her skin and move forward musically.
With a comeback album in the works, her first new song, Heavy Lies the Head, has just been released.
And 9News can reveal the new Amorosi is also a wife and a mum.
"I’d never met a real Australian besides Paul Hogan in the movies," husband Rod Busby said.
It’s the start of a new chapter for the whole family… and for her fans.