It's two years on Sunday, since the Woolsey and Hill Fires ignited and went on to burn 97,000 acres across Ventura and Los Angeles Counties.
At least 1600 homes were destroyed and three people died, as the wildfire prompted the unprecedented evacuation of more than 295,000 people as it spread through Thousand Oaks, Oak Park, Agoura Hills and Malibu.
The scars remain for many who lost their homes, including one resident whose home at Seminole Springs Mobile Home Park burned down.
Musician Dawn Hummer's home was one of over a hundred that were lost at the park. Two years later, the charred and blackened trees remain, as well as an empty space where her home once was.
She is hopeful she may finally be able to move back into a new home at the Agoura Hills community in the new year.
Dawn recalled how she had a ten minute warning to evacuate, on that fateful morning.
"It was 7.20am. They came to the bottom of the street and said with a bullhorn, 'everybody out, you have ten minutes.'
"We just got the cats and grabbed a last few minute things. Your mind is just racing and eyes are tearing around the room.
"There was a basket of stuff that I had, childhood things...and I didn't get it and I kick myself for not grabbing that basket.
"I know it's just stuff...you kind of put it out of your mind, but then somebody will mention something and you'll say 'I used to have that'. There's nothing you can do about it now, you just move on. It's traumatic and it's weird and it's surreal."
Dawn says she lost over 2000 vinyl albums from her collection, 12 of her 15 guitars, priceless Beatles memorabilia, sentimental family items and jewelry. She has been living in a rented apartment for most of the two years, after an initial two month stay on an air-mattress with her brother, but is now bracing herself for the emotions of moving back to the site, in a newly built home which she's waited two years for.
She finally received a call this week that her new home is off the production line and will be delivered within ten days.
"My husband and I have mixed emotions. There's many times in the last two years where we almost didn't come back.
Once the mobile home is on the property it has to be fixed up and the exterior works and hook ups take place, which takes around two months.
