Fresno native’s Southern California business destroyed by Palisades Fire [Video]

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — “All that work, it took a while, there was just a lot of blood, sweat and tears put into it,” said business owner Julia Cantu.

Fresno native Julia Cantu has been in the skincare industry for more than 20 years before she opened her Malibu storefront a little more than a year ago.

Her business is no longer recognizable after the Pacific Palisades fire tore through it.

“We watched the news that night and we were kind of concerned, worried but I was still very hopeful. We all went to bed. The morning, I had a text message from the management, and it was a picture of it in flames,” said Cantu.

Cantu said she wasn’t able to get to her business because firefighters had closed all the roads nearby.

Cantu’s early estimations put her loss between $25,000 to $40,000.

She said she is lost and unsure of what to …