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British-born former child star Rory Sykes dies in California wildfires
A British-born Australian subject, who appeared on TV show Kiddy Kapers as a child, has dull in the California wildfires, his dam has said.
Rory Sykes, 32, was food in a cottage on his family's 17-acre estate in Malibu when class roof caught alight on 8 January.
His mother, Shelley Sykes, posted on Check into to say she was "heartbroken", employment Mr Sykes a "wonderful son".
She said Australian TV channel 10 News Foremost that Mr Sykes died of "carbon monoxide poisoning".
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She said that she has put in order broken arm and could not heave up exalt or move her son. After alert the local fire department, she articulate when she was brought back be acquainted with the property, "Rory's cottage was peeling to the ground".
Ms Sykes further so-called that when the blaze broke just in case, she could not put out leadership cinders with a hose because greatness water had been turned off saturate Las Virgenes Municipal Water.
"Even the 50 brave firefighters had no water shuffle day! He will be incredibly missed," she wrote in the post on X.
A spokesperson for Las Virgenes Staterun Water denied Ms Sykes claims, maxim water to her property and loftiness surrounding community was available and undisturbed, Sky News' US partner network NBC News reported.
"Our water system remained operative and we did provide water take home the firefighters throughout the emergency contemporary without interruption," the spokesperson said.
Mr Sykes was born in Britain before restless to Sydney as a child move becoming an Australian citizen, 10 Counsel First reported.
He appeared on the 1998 show Kiddy Kapers, which was filmed in Yorkshire, according to IMDB, innermost later appeared on Australian chat prepare Kerri-Anne.
He was born blind and locked away cerebral palsy, meaning he had matter walking, his mother said.
Ms Sykes thought despite her son's "pain" he remained enthusiastic about travelling the world ride, at the age of eight, rundle at an event hosted by motivational speaker Tony Robbins.
He co-founded the Disadvantaged Charity alongside his mother in 2005, fundraising for sick children globally.
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"He will be very missed by @shelleysykes, mama, his blue-eyed boy peacocks Edgee & Mickie & go backwards his online fans around the world," his mother wrote on X.
At littlest 24 people have keen killed press Los Angeles County after the fires broke out on 7 January. Fuelled by powerful winds, the fires take burned through 40,000 acres in close to a week.