Rory Sykes, a former child star who was blind and had cerebral palsy, has died in the Los Angeles wildfires, his mother has said.
The British-born Australian citizen appeared on British TV show Kiddy Kapers in the 1990s.
"It is with great sadness that I have to announce the death of my beautiful son @Rorysykes to the Malibu fires yesterday. I'm totally heart broken," his mother Shelley Sykes wrote on social media.
Ms Sykes travelled to her local fire department after struggling to get through to the emergency services and move her 32-year-old son, Rory, from his self-contained cottage next to her property, while flames surrounded the area.
"He was my baby, and he died needlessly", she told Australian TV newscast 10 News First.
"Guess what didn’t work, 911. All the phone lines were down," she said.
"He said 'Mum, leave me', and no mum can leave their kid, and I’ve got a broken arm. I couldn’t lift him. I couldn’t move him."
The news programme said she drove 400 metres to her local fire station to ask for help which is when they told her they had "no water", Ms Sykes claimed.
"When the fire department brought me back, his cottage was burned to the ground," she added.
Ms Sykes said her son died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Las Virgenes Municipal Water denied her claims, according to US reports, saying the "water service did remain available and uninterrupted to her property and the entire surrounding community".
Source: Press Association
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