Shelley Sykes, a TV production entrepreneur, told Australian media of a desperate battle to save her 32-year-old son Rory, who had cerebral palsy.
Sykes said on social media that she and her son lived on a 6.8-hectare (17-acre) estate in Malibu, a beachside city in Los Angeles County.
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“Rory’s feet with the heat had started to swell, and he couldn’t walk very well. And he also had problems with his tummy. So he didn’t want to be far away from the bathroom,“ Sykes told Australia’s Channel Nine on Sunday.
Sykes said she could not leave her son alone on the estate.
Sykes said she saw embers on the roof of her son’s cottage and tried to extinguish them with a hose, but “there was no water coming out”.
She then drove to the closest fire station seeking help, but was told they, too, had no access to water.
Authorities told the Los Angeles Times newspaper that the water shortages occurred because the scale and duration of the firefighting effort were more than the city's infrastructure was designed for.
“There was nothing there,“ she told Channel Nine.
“I am just devastated, it is unreal at the moment. I cannot breathe.”
Fire authorities said he died from carbon monoxide poisoning, Sykes said.
“I’ve got a broken arm. I couldn’t lift him. I couldn’t move him,“ she said in a separate interview with Australia’s Channel 10.
The department said it was providing consular assistance to the man’s family, but was unable to comment further citing “privacy obligations”.
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