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WEBVTT CALLED 911, AND THE FIREDEPARTMENT CAME TO HER RESUCE.>> IT STARTED FROM THE DININGAREA ON THE FIRST FLOOR.AND THEY PUT GASOLINE ALL OVERTHE PLACE -- IN THE KITCHEN, THEBATHROOM, EVERYWHERE.AUBRY:ZOHREH KHALEGHI TOOK OUR CAMERASINSID HER RESTAURANT AFTERINVESTIGATORS SAY SOMEONE SET ITON FIRE SUNDAY NIGHT.>> EMOTIONALLY TO ME, TODAY IEYES.AUBRY: BEFORE EMERGENCY CREWSRESPONDED, SHE SAYS SHE WAS ONTHE SECOND FLOOR DOINGINVENTORY, AND SMELLED SMOKE.>> I WAS IN THE OFFICE.I SAW THE SMOKE, DARK -- LIKE ACLOUD OF DARK SMOKE. IT CAME TO THE ROOM.IT WAS SCARY.AUBRY: SHE WAS RESCUED BY THEFIRE DEPARTMENT.SHE SAYS WITHOUT THEM, SHE WOULDBE DEAD. THE FLAMING TORCH OPENED IN2004.KHALEGHI SAYS SHE GETS ALONGWITH EVERYONE IN THENEIGHBORHOOD AND IS NOT ONE TOHAVE ENEMIES.AS FOR WHO IS BEHIND THE FIRE,SHE SAYS IT'S A MYSTERY. AND AS KHALEGHI TRIES TO SALVAGEWHAT SHE CAN, SHE TELLS US SHEHAS INSURANCE, BUT IS NOT SUREIF THE FLAMING TORCH WILL EVERREOPEN.>> EMOTIONALLY, THIS ISSOMETHING THAT MONEY CANNOTBRING IT BACK FOR US.AUBRY: AND WHAT MAKES THIS EVENHARDER IS THE RECENT DEATH OFHER HUSBAND, HIS PICTURE ISSTILL HANGING IN THE CENTER OFTHEIR RESTAURANT THAT THEYOPENED UP TOGETHER.>> THIS IS HEARTBREAKING. THIS IS SOMETHING WE ONLY HADBEFORE MY HUSBAND LEFT AND THAT

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Zohreh Khaleghi, the owner of the Flaming Torch, said she was the only one inside when someone set the first floor of her restaurant on fire. Khaleghi said she went up to the roof for safety and called 911, and the New Orleans Fire Department came to her rescue. "It started from the dining area on the first floor,” Khaleghi said. “They put gasoline all over the place in the kitchen, the bathroom, everywhere." Khaleghi took WDSU inside her restaurant after investigators determined someone had set it on fire Sunday night. "I just have tears always in my eyes,” Khaleghi said. Before emergency crews responded, she said she was on the second floor doing inventory and smelled smoke. "I was in the office,” Khaleghi said. “I saw the smoke, like a cloud of dark smoke. It came to the room. It was scary." Without the Fire Department, she said, she would be dead. Khaleghi said the Flaming Torch opened in 2004. As for who is behind the fire, she said it's a mystery. She gets along with everyone in the neighborhood and is not one to have enemies. As Khaleghi tries to salvage what she can, she tells WDSU she has insurance, but is not sure if the Flaming Torch will ever reopen. "Emotionally, this is something that money cannot bring back for us,” Khaleghi said. What makes this even harder is the recent death of her husband. His picture is still hanging in the center of the restaurant that they opened up together. "This is heartbreaking,” Khaleghi said. “This is something we only had before my husband left and that was his memory for us." The Fire Department is not releasing any additional details. If you have any information that can help investigators, call law enforcement. Keep up with local news, weather and current events with the WDSU app here. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news right in your inbox. Click here to sign up!