Anne Heche inside her scorched Mini Cooper until 24 minutes after they arrived at the scene, and it took at least another 20 minutes before firefighters could extract her from the vehicle.The harrowing details have come to light after NBC4 Los Angeles obtained the Los Angeles Fire Department's records and time-stamped recordings of radio communications, which also showed there was initial confusion as to whether there was more than one patient after Heche plowed her car into the 738-square-foot, two-story home in the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles.According to the news station, «heavy fire and smoke conditions» made it impossible to determine whether someone was trapped inside the vehicle.
What's more, fire officials say determining whether someone was trapped in the vehicle made it more difficult by the fact that Heche was not even in the driver's seat.The recordings show that firefighters arrived at the scene at 11:01 a.m., and dispatchers had informed firefighters, within seconds upon arrival, that a person was trapped in the car.
Once inside the home, firefighters treated a woman in the home, who turned out to be the tenant, and not Heche. At 11:18 a.m., one of the firefighters working on the fire radioed that no one else was inside the home.«We do have no patients at this time,» the firefighter can be heard saying.But, just four minutes later at 11:22 a.m.
and after overlapping messages on the radio, an incident commander asked for confirmation.«Let me clear this up, so — you do have a patient in the car?» the commander can be heard asking over the radio.Three minutes later, at 11:25 a.m., a firefighter who appeared to be speaking through an oxygen mask radioed that he found the driver.«We have identified one.
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