Actress Anne Heche reportedly suffered severe burns after her car crashed into a home in Los Angeles on Friday morning, multiple media outlets are reporting.
According to a statement from the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), “a single passenger vehicle crashed and came to rest heavily inside a two-story, 738-square-foot home in the Mar Vista neighborhood, causing structural compromise and a heavy fire broke out before LAFD arrived.”
“Fifty-nine firefighters took 65 minutes to access, contain and fully extinguish the stubborn flames within the heavily damaged structure,” the statement posted on its website said.
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The LAFD added that they rescued an adult woman found inside the vehicle, who was taken to an area hospital in critical condition by LAFD paramedics.
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The LAFD told Global News they cannot provide more information about the woman involved in the incident for privacy reasons.
Media outlets such as CNN, the Los Angeles Times and CBS suggest that the person involved was 53-year-old actress Anne Heche.
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He is now in stable condition, a representative for the actor told People magazine.
Anne Heche is in hospital badly burned from a car accident, this is truly tragic. Pray for her.
— ✌🏼rosanna arquette (@RoArquette) August 5, 2022
Heche was driving a blue Mini Cooper at the time, according to local media reports.
Heche was recognized for her role on the soap opera Another World, which earned her a Daytime Emmy Award and two Soap Opera Digest Awards.
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Heche is also an Emmy-nominated actress who received a 2004 Primetime Emmy nomination for her role as Rowena Larson on Gracie’s Choice in the category of “Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.”
She is known as the former partner of American comedian and television star Ellen DeGeneres.
Heche is now in stable condition and is expected to “get better,” according to her ex-boyfriend Thomas Jane, The Daily Mail reported on Saturday.
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