In early August, Anne Heche suffered an accident in Los Angeles that would have been fatal. The 53-year-old actress crashed her car into a house, causing a fire. When they managed to rescue her, she was transferred to the hospital in “extremely critical” condition and in a coma, with severe burns. A few days later she was pronounced brain dead and her family disconnected her from assisted breathing.
Although LAPD decided to drop their investigation into the incident as soon as the death was declared, NBC had access to new reports on the event. According to the police, Anne Heche was trapped in her car in the fire for nearly 45 minutes. It took firefighters 20 minutes to access the vehicle, a difficult task due to the smoke and flames, and another 20 to rescue her.
Misunderstood?
Apparently, the ‘Six Days and Seven Nights’ actress was found on the floor of the car, more on the passenger side, so at first it was assumed that she had managed to get out of the vehicle and that she was the one. first person found in the fire inside the house. After realizing that there was still a victim in the car, they proceeded to extract it. Police say the result would have been no different if members of the rescue team had known from the start that Heche was still in the car.. Richard Fields, deputy chief of the LAPD, says the firefighters did everything they could to save her.
The official cause of death for the actress was inhalation, burns and a broken breastbone. On 11 August, her brain death was declared and on 14 her assisted breathing was suspended. Anne Heche died without a will, but was an organ donor.
Source: E Cartelera
