The NBC Los Angeles TV station and local media have now been given access to the radio traffic from the fire department and the LAPD police department. According to this, the “Fire Brigade” was involved in extinguishing work and simultaneous rescue efforts for 45 minutes. In the total crash, the affected house, West Coast lightweight construction, finally collapsed. The owners of the house are – for now – homeless and ruined.
Detailed documents show that the soldiers had no access to Heche’s Mini Cooper for around 20 minutes. It took another 20 minutes to pull the wreck out of the debris inferno with heavy equipment.
“Given the heavy fire and smoke conditions, it wasn’t like the vehicle was clearly visible. It was difficult to access quickly,” deputy fire chief Richard Fields told NBC LA. Dramatic smoke and fire conditions that the experienced Fire Fighter sO had not experienced before.
Heche, best known for her role in Donnie Brasco and other Hollywood films, died of smoke inhalation and thermal injuries, according to an autopsy. The death certificate lists Heche’s date of death as 11/12. August. Her spokesman said as recently as August 12 that she was brain dead but was being kept alive so her organs could be donated.
The exact background of this accident are still in the dark. Heche crashed her Mini Cooper into the home at around 10:56 a.m. in Mar Vista, a western Los Angeles neighborhood, according to firefighters.
It said at the time it took the response team 65 minutes “to access, contain and completely extinguish the persistent flames in the severely damaged structure and rescue an adult woman who was found inside the vehicle.”
According to NBC records, the first fire truck arrived at the disaster site at 11:01 a.m. Within seconds, the dispatchers radioed that a person was trapped in the car: “Someone is stuck in the vehicle,” it said over the airwaves. An accident, like something out of a Hollywood disaster movie.