Pacific Palisades woman loses home and business to brush fire NBC Los Angeles [Video]

A Pacific Palisades woman is grappling with the loss of not only her home but her business as she and her teenage son navigate where they will be staying after.

Tawnya Warren, a single mother from Pacific Palisades, said she is facing her new reality after the Palisades Fire destroyed her rent-controlled apartment and her business. She owned Tawnya, a fine jewelry and clothing shop on Sunset Boulevard near where the Pacific Palisades Village once was.

“I took every single dime that I had and put it into my business as my future,” she said. “I thought that was my retirement plan.”

When she and her 17-year-old son were forced out of their home during the fire, she said she prayed she wouldn’t lose everything.

“I kept saying the whole time, ‘God, please don’t take both. Either save my sanctuary where I live or save my retirement, my store. Just …