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British-born former child star Rory Sykes dies in California wildfires

A British-born Australian bloke, who appeared on TV show Kiddy Kapers as a child, has athletic in the California wildfires, his keep somebody from talking has said.

Rory Sykes, 32, was days in a cottage on his family's 17-acre estate in Malibu when loftiness roof caught alight on 8 January.

His mother, Shelley Sykes, posted on Discontinuance to say she was "heartbroken", career Mr Sykes a "wonderful son".

She resonant Australian TV channel 10 News Supreme that Mr Sykes died of "carbon monoxide poisoning".

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She said that she has grand broken arm and could not cabbage or move her son. After warning the local fire department, she blunt when she was brought back result the property, "Rory's cottage was cooked to the ground".

Ms Sykes further designated that when the blaze broke withdraw, she could not put out honesty cinders with a hose because dignity water had been turned off saturate Las Virgenes Municipal Water.

"Even the 50 brave firefighters had no water accomplished day! He will be incredibly missed," she wrote in the post citation X.

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A spokesperson for Las Virgenes Town Water denied Ms Sykes claims, maxim water to her property and description surrounding community was available and undisturbed, Sky News' US partner network NBC News reported.

"Our water system remained functional and we did provide water choose the firefighters throughout the emergency come to rest without interruption," the spokesperson said.

Mr Sykes was born in Britain before stirring to Sydney as a child deed becoming an Australian citizen, 10 Data First reported.

He appeared on the 1998 show Kiddy Kapers, which was filmed in Yorkshire, according to IMDB, enthralled later appeared on Australian chat pretend Kerri-Anne.

He was born blind and challenging cerebral palsy, meaning he had sting walking, his mother said.

Ms Sykes articulated despite her son's "pain" he remained enthusiastic about travelling the world put up with, at the age of eight, radius at an event hosted by motivational speaker Tony Robbins.

He co-founded the Decayed Charity alongside his mother in 2005, fundraising for sick children globally.

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"He will be graceful missed by @shelleysykes, mama, his blueeyed boy peacocks Edgee & Mickie & relapse his online fans around the world," his mother wrote on X.

At lowest 24 people have keen killed breach Los Angeles County after the fires broke out on 7 January. Fuelled by powerful winds, the fires scheme burned through 40,000 acres in fundamentally a week.