In a video shared to her almost 1 million followers on TikTok, the influencer defined she was renting out an Airbnb for a wellness retreat the place she was anticipated to host a workshop. Within the GRWM — or Get Prepared with Me — video, Elissa detailed her “loopy, traumatizing close to dying expertise.”

“I am in the course of nowhere, there’s not a neighbor for 200 meters, there isn’t a reception,” Elissa recalled within the video, sharing she had used the sauna already the night time earlier than the incident and turned it on whereas doing a little duties across the house.

“I believed I am going to simply cook dinner dinner rapidly after which go in in 40 minutes, which is what you do for lots of saunas – you allow them to warmth up,” she mentioned.

Then, after she completed dinner and received prepared, issues took an explosive flip.

“I am about to place my swimmers on to go … and I hear ‘Growth.’ I lookup. All the sauna exploded,” the social media star exclaimed, clarifying she was not contained in the sauna when it occurred.

“It was, like, a 10-to-15-meter excessive explosion. All the ability went out, my telephone was about to die, I’ve no reception,” she continued. “I’m screaming, ‘Assist! Any person assist me!’ It was a horror film.”

She then defined the panic she felt not having the ability to contact anybody — earlier than feeling some aid after discovering emergency providers nonetheless labored with out reception.

“Thank God. My fingers have been shaking,” she mentioned to the digital camera.

Elissa talked about she noticed neighbors, who have been about 1/eighth of a mile away, however defined they have been at first hesitant to assist after she ran to their door screaming for help. Ultimately, they opened up, earlier than explaining why they did not instantly open the door.

“The girl goes, ‘Sorry we have been so resistant that will help you. Final time a woman was screaming, she stabbed her husband,’” she claimed.

“Three hearth vehicles come to take down this enormous hearth. Fortunately, the sauna was about 50 meters from the home on a hill. The entire sauna burnt to the bottom,” she continued. “It was probably the most horrific factor to expertise as a result of I used to be a couple of minutes from going into that sauna.”

In her caption underneath the video, Elissa wrote, “I requested CHATGPT what it means when a sauna burns down life is so fragile, mum was positively ensuring I didn’t get in that sauna,” referring to her late mom.

She added that, had she been inside, “nobody would hear me, nobody would assist me,” and her husband would have “walked as much as me in a hearth.” Elissa added that she nonetheless hosted her workshop the subsequent day and can search remedy.