Heartbreaking Final Words Of Hollywood Actress Found Dead In Home After LA Fires
The heartbreaking final words of a Hollywood actress who sadly was found dead at her home in the LA wildfires have shocked the internet.
It is now day seven since over 180,000 people had to abandon their homes in search of safety following the wildfires ravaging LA.
The flames have destroyed thousands of acres of lands and thousands of buildings and homes.
At least 24 people have sadly been confirmed dead due to the fires while many more are missing and unaccounted for.
Governor Gavin Newsom declared it ‘one of the worst natural natural disasters in US history’.
Firefighters have warned that the disaster is still very active, with fires Palisade, Easton and Hurst still actively ravaging the countryside.
Blues Brothers actress Dalyce Curry has sadly died as a result of the fires.
Curry, 95, had been in hospital when the devastation struck and was eager to get home. She and her granddaughter, Dalyce Kelley arrived at her cottage on Krenze Street around midnight on January 8.
They could see flames about 4 miles away but Kelley said she wasn’t scared at the time.
‘She gave me a big wet kiss and she said I love you,’ Kelley told news outlets.
‘I said, “I love you too” and I made sure that she was safe inside. We were both so tired from the day at the hospital. I didn’t feel like she was in eminent danger because there was no evacuation order at that point.
‘Sometimes her kisses were too wet that you have to wipe it off a little bit. That’s who she was. Just loving. We kissed, said goodbye and I drove back to my home. That was the last thing we said to one another.’
Kelley lives about 25 miles away and sadly woke up only hours later to discover the heartbreaking news that the Eaton Fire had ravaged the neighborhood where her grandmother lived.
After calling emergency services to get someone to check on her beloved grandmother, she couldn’t get through due to the volume of calls.
So she decided to drive over to see for herself.
‘I found out later that people in the area got an evacuation notice at 3:30 am that [Wednesday] morning, but Momma D was not a cell phone type of girl. When you’re elderly, it’s hard for them or they just don’t like to use their cell phones.’
‘It was all black and I just panicked because I felt like I was in h*ll,’ she said. ‘A man passed me by and yelled that his whole house had burned down.
‘Another lady drove by and she screamed, “The whole city is gone!” And I’m like, “Oh, my God! What is happening?”‘
‘I was on my way to Pasadena when he called me back,’ Kelley remembered. ‘He said, “Ma’am, I hate to tell you, but your grandmother’s house is totally gone.”
‘I still went to the center and then the Arcadia Recreation Center because maybe someone had taken her out of the house and took here somewhere. I was clinging onto hope that someone had her.’
‘I went down there to see if I can look for her body myself but I was stopped by the National Guard,’ she said. ‘They told me there was nothing they could do but one of them took pity on me and said she would guide me there but we had to go on foot.’
‘The devastation was unbelievable,’ she said. ‘Power lines were down everywhere. When we got to the house, it was a nightmare.’
When she got there, she was shocked by what she found. ‘She loved that chair and would fall asleep on it all the time, so I thought she would be there but I saw no remains,’ Kelley said. ‘The smell of gas was just so overwhelming that the National Guard told me we had to go.’
48 hours later, Kelley received a call: ‘It was 5 p.m. Sunday when I saw the coroner’s number and my heart dropped,’ she said. ‘They said, “Unfortunately, we did find remains at your grandmother’s home.”‘
Officials said that sadly the only remains found in the cottage were half a skull with eyeglass frames.
‘That means she was probably asleep and she was just so tired she never even took her eyeglasses off,’ Kelley said.
‘In her 95 years of life, Momma D never had a CT scan but the day before the fires, they ordered one,’ Kelley said. ‘I don’t know why this happened but ironically, that’s the only thing we have left to help identify her remains because only a part of a skull was found.
‘I thought to myself, “Was this meant to be, God? Why did this happen? Why didn’t we just stay at the hospital?” There are so many questions and what ifs. She wanted to leave the hospital that night and go where she would be happy, which was at her own house.’
The 95 year old had worked in Hollywood, doing small roles in several movies that became pop culture classics like The Blues Brothers and The Ten Commandments.