An Australian man was killed when his cottage was destroyed in the LA fires, while his mother bravely tried to stop the blaze with a garden hose.
Rory Callum Sykes, 32, died Thursday when his cottage on his mother’s Malibu property burned down.
Mr. Sykes was born blind with cerebral palsy. He had difficulty walking and worked as a motivational speaker.
“I’m devastated,” his mother Shelley Skyes said on social media.
She described Mr Skyes, a British-born Australian, as an “amazing son” who “overcame so much with surgery and therapies to regain his sight and learn to walk.”
‘Despite the pain, he was still excited to travel the world with me, from Africa to Antarctica.’
Skyes had his own cottage on his mother’s 17-acre Mount Malibu estate, which burned down in the Malibu fire on Wednesday local time, she said.
“I couldn’t put out the embers on his roof with a hose because the water was turned off by the Las Virgenes municipal water company.
“Even the fifty brave firefighters had no water all day!”
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Rory Callum Sykes, 32, died when his cottage on his mother’s estate in Malibu burned down on Wednesday local time
“I couldn’t put out the embers on his roof with a hose because the water was turned off by the Las Virgenes municipal water,” said Mr. Sykes’ mother, Shelley Sykes.