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Actress Anne Heche was involved in two car crashes minutes apart in Los Angeles on Friday. The second crash caused a fire that destroyed the house.
As a result of the blaze, Heche, who is best known for her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres and her acting roles in the 1990s, was taken to a local hospital and intubated.
Heche first crashed her car into an apartment building in Los Angeles on Friday morning around 11:00 am, she fled that scene and continued driving on the same block before crashing into another home.
At the scene of the first crash, residents of the apartment building attempted to free Heche from the car. The star resisted, putting her car in reverse and speeding off.
The TMZ report mentions that photos from the time of the first crash show that Heche may have had a bottle of 'alcohol' in the cup holder. In June 2021, Heche said on an episode of her podcast 'Better Together' that she is sober.
Following the initial crash, Heche's blue Mini Cooper is shown on a doorbell camera speeding past a home along South Walgrove Avenue in the Mar Vista neighborhood around 90 miles per hour.
Minutes later Heche crashed into a two-story home along the same street causing the house and Heche's car to become engulfed in flames.
The home is located around 15 miles from Heche's home in the Eastern Columbia Lofts building in the Broadway Theater District of Downtown Los Angeles.
According to the Los Angeles Fire Department, the crash caused 'structural compromise and erupting in heavy fire.'
In a tweet, the LAFD said that it took 59 firefighters 65 minutes to put out the blaze. The home is now 'uninhabitable.' The owner of the home was unharmed as they were in the backyard when Heche careered into the front of the building.
Pictures and video showed her looking dazed at the wheel after the first crash, with a witness capturing her with a bottle with a red top on it in her car. It is not clear what was in the container but it looked like a vodka bottle
An earlier shot also shows Heche moments before the second accident at the wheel with a bottle of vodka with a red cap plonked in the cup holder
In a report from the scene prior to Heche's extraction around 11:30 am, Fox 11's Stu Mandel said: 'If there's somebody alive in there this is going to be a miracle.' Minutes later, Heche can be seen being carried from the scene.
A witness told NBC Los Angeles that a crane was used to extract Heche from her car.
Los Angeles Fire Department Capt. Erik Scott told the media: 'We really had a multifaceted incident here. We had a significant traffic collision, we had entrapment of a woman inside that, we had a car that erupted into fire, and then we had a home that had significant fire that is red tagged. It’s at this point destroyed.'
The 'Six Days, Seven Nights' star was rushed to a local hospital. At the time of writing, she is listed as being in critical condition as she is being treated for burns. Heche is expected to survive
According to TMZ, Heche was behaving erratically.
Video from the scene shows Heche being carried away with burned clothes and covered in a white sheet. At one point, Heche sits up on the stretcher and gesticulates with the firefighters while seemingly trying to escape.
Burn victims are regularly wrapped in a sterile sheet doused in sterile water to cool the wounds.
An overhead view shows the massive amounts of damage caused by the fiery car crash to Anne Heche's Mini
Smoke can be seen billowing out of the roof of the home which the LA Fire Department say has been destroyed
Shocking images also show the burnt out wreckage of her Mini Clubman as it was towed out of a hedge across the road from a school in the Mar Vista area
The incident occurred in the Mar Vista-section of Los Angeles.
