Anne Heche was locked up in the Los Angeles home where she crashed her Mini Cooper for 45 minutes while it burned, records reveal.
NBC4 published audio files timestamped Thursday of the Los Angeles Fire Department’s response to the late actress’s August 5 accident in the Mar Vista neighborhood.
“Given the severe fire and smoke conditions, it wasn’t like you could see clearly into the vehicle or have clear access to it,” Deputy Chief Richard Fields told the scene outlet.
According to the recordings, the LAFD arrived at 11:01 a.m. that day and realized within seconds that a person was “stuck in the vehicle” — although Fields clarified that dispatcher Lynne Mishele, the home’s owner, was on time.
While firefighters believed there were no other casualties at 11:18 am, Heche was “pressed to the floor” and seen “inaccessible” in her car at 11:25 am.
“Where the person was in the vehicle was not in the driver’s seat, but on the floorboard of the passenger seat,” Fields said Thursday.
Heche was pulled alive from her car at 11:49 a.m. and then “assessed” and “loaded” onto a stretcher, according to the records.
Los Angeles police received a warrant to test Heche’s blood, and news came days later that she was under the influence of cocaine at the time of the crash.
The “Six Days, Seven Nights” star fell into a coma after the accident, with her rep revealing on August 11 that Heche “had suffered a severe anoxic brain injury” that she was expected to “wouldn’t survive.”
The author of “Call Me Crazy” had previously expressed a desire to “donate her organs,” so she was kept on a ventilator to determine if she was a match.
Heche died on August 12.
“Today we lost a bright light, a kind and most joyful soul, a loving mother and a loyal friend,” her representative said in a statement at the time.
The Daytime Emmy winner, who shared sons Homer, 20, and Atlas, 13, with Coleman Laffoon and James Tupper, respectively, is buried in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
The Tony nominee’s children selected the location, telling Vidak For Congress in a statement last month that the site is “beautiful, serene and she will be one of her Hollywood peers.”