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It is a deeply emotional moment from a world-renowned Alberta musician, resonating with thousands of people whose lives were torn apart by the Los Angeles wildfires<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This week, Jens Lindemann and his family made their first return to the burnt-out remains of a place they called home for 16 years.<\/p>\n As he and his wife walked over the ruins of their once-splendid Southern California home, Lindemann opted to let his music speak in a moment words failed him.<\/p>\n \u201cI managed to pull out one trumpet that I had saved. I saved eight out of the 35 that I had,\u201d Lindemann said. \u201cI played a beautiful song by Charlie Chaplin called Smile<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was all I could muster.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n Almost 80 per cent of his largely celebrity neighbourhood was wiped out by the deadly Palisades fires that tore through the Santa Ynez Canyon on Jan. 7.<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u201cThere was a lot of panic on the mountain that I lived on,\u201d Lindemann said, describing firefighters bulldozing away some of the 200 vehicles abandoned in a traffic jam caused by the sudden evacuation. \u201cPeople literally left their cars because the canyon was burning, burning on either sides. We were trapped up the mountain for another four hours until that happened.\u201d<\/p>\n\n