BOULDER, Colo. (KDVR) — A Boulder man is stunned to be living through two of the same tragedies twice: His parents lost their home to wildfires in Los Angeles not long after the third anniversary of losing his own home in the Marshall Fire.

Christian Maljian was visiting his family in California back in December 2021 when his roommate in Superior texted him smoke was getting close to their home.

“Hoping it didn’t burn, like, for hours and hours and found out, you know, the next day when I’d actually flown back to Colorado that it got lost,” said Maljian.

His home and everything in it was lost to the flames. Three years later, he got a similar call from his parents who live in the Los Angeles suburb of Altadena.

“I just kind of had this hope that it would just blow over, blow up into the hills and not kind of run through town,” said Maljian.

Unfortunately, it didn’t. His parents’ home was one of the first to catch fire in their neighborhood.

“It was just hard to wrap my head around it,” said Maljian. “Again? Like, this is something that people should never experience. Now here I am, twice.”

Maljian says the home had been in their family since he was six years old, about 22 years now.

“It’s the first house my parents ever bought themselves,” he said.

Now as his parents look to pick up the pieces, they’re seeking help from someone who knows exactly what they’re going through.

“My dad was like, yes, we’re looking to you to kind of help us, you know?” said Maljian.

He said he’s encouraged them to mourn in whatever way they feel best.

“You’re gonna feel weird moments where you need to cry and you, like, don’t understand it, you don’t want to be crying,” said Maljian. “Then there’s going to be moments, like, you can’t cry but you want to be crying. There’s a lot of different things, and it’s, like, don’t fight it, this is just part of it.”

He told them to know that, just like for him over the years since the Marshall Fire, things will get better.

“Good things will come. Life will bring good things to you and there’s newness even when we lose things too,” said Maljian.

Maljian set up a GoFundMe to help his parents in the recovery process, which you can find here.