Heidi Montag shares tearful video after LA fire destroys her home

Heidi Montag is doing her best to “focus on the gratitude” after a fire destroyed her family’s home in Los Angeles.

Montag and man Spencer Pratt lost their property when a fire spread throughout Pacific Palisades on Tuesday, January 7th. The couple and their sons, Gunner, 6, and Ryker, 13 months, evacuated safely earlier that day.

“The craziest thing when you’re packing for a campfire is that your brain just freaks out,” Montag, 38, shared via Instagram stories Wednesday, January 8. “You think, ‘What do I need? What don’t I need?’ It’s so overwhelming to pack a house. I mean, I only have two pairs of jeans, two shirts. I have so many more clothes for the kids.”

Still, she asked herself, “Why didn’t I take more?”

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As her eyes filled with tears, Montag said “the most important thing is that we are safe. Get out.” But in the moment, “you’re really just panicking and then part of you thinks, ‘I’ll be back.’ You know, ‘Of course I’ll come back for all (our stuff).’ So I am praying for everyone else going through this and all my friends and loved ones. Thank God we have our health and our children – and I know that. Just trying to focus on the gratitude. It just comes in waves.”

Earlier Wednesday, Pratt, 41, handed over a poignant message on the Instagram grid.

“The one positive sign I saw as our house burned down our son’s bed was burned in the shape of a heart,” he wrote, sending Ring camera footage of the nursery.

He continued: “A sign of how much love was in this house, so grateful for all the years and memories there with our family.”

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Spencer’s sister, Stephanie Prattwas the first to confirm the news.

“I don’t know if it’s a good thing I’m in London or I’m going back to LA, I can’t think straight. What do I do? Honestly looking for advice. I’m frozen in shock,” wrote Stephanie, 38 via Instagram late Tuesday. “How terrible for my sweet little nephews to see their house disappear like this. They must be so scared and confused.”

On her Instagram story, Stephanie noted that she was “beyond heartbroken” for her brother and their family.

“Just talked to my dad – he tried to save my brother’s house, but the wind was so strong. There was nothing he could do,” Stephanie added. “Even the Palisades fire station is down. Pacific Palisades is completely on fire . There’s nobody there.”

Stephanie further noted that the siblings’ parents had also “evacuated safely” before watching their own house burn down via security camera footage.

“My parents house is gone,” Spencer wrote via Instagram Stories on Wednesday, sharing a photo of the rubble and adding seven crying emojis.