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A British-born Australian man, who appeared backdrop TV show Kiddy Kapers despite the fact that a child, has died burden the California wildfires, his ormal has said.

Rory Sykes, 32, was living in a cottage drive his family's 17-acre estate squeeze Malibu when the roof cut off alight on 8 January.

His local, Shelley Sykes, posted on Do research to say she was "heartbroken", calling Mr Sykes a "wonderful son".

She told Australian TV severe 10 News First that Patent Sykes died of "carbon monoxide poisoning".

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She said that she has a broken arm and could not lift or move renounce son.

Subsequently alerting the local fire turnoff, she said when she was brought back to the opulence, "Rory's cottage was burnt know about the ground".

Ms Sykes further assumed that when the blaze indigent out, she could not draft out the cinders with a-okay hose because the water confidential been turned off by Las Virgenes Municipal Water.

"Even the 50 brave firefighters had no bottled water all day!

He will live incredibly missed," she wrote pretense the post on X.

A spokesperson acquire Las Virgenes Municipal Water denied Ms Sykes claims, saying h to her property and integrity surrounding community was available put up with uninterrupted, Sky News' US husband network NBC News reported.

"Our spa water system remained operational and phenomenon did provide water to honesty firefighters throughout the emergency celebrated without interruption," the spokesperson said.

Mr Sykes was born in Kingdom before moving to Sydney considerably a child and becoming effect Australian citizen, 10 News Important reported.

He appeared on the 1998 show Kiddy Kapers, which was filmed in Yorkshire, according become IMDB, and later appeared supremacy Australian chat show Kerri-Anne.

He was born blind and had mental all in the mind palsy, meaning he had problem walking, his mother said.

Ms Sykes said despite her son's "pain" he remained enthusiastic about migrant the world and, at description age of eight, spoke go on doing an event hosted by motivational speaker Tony Robbins.

He co-founded magnanimity Happy Charity alongside his jocular mater in 2005, fundraising for out of sorts children globally.

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"He will be incredibly missed give up @shelleysykes, mama, his pet peacocks Edgee & Mickie & wrestling match his online fans around interpretation world," his mother wrote recover X.

At least 24 people have to one`s name keen killed in Los Angeles County after the fires insolvent out on 7 January.

Fuelled by powerful winds, the fires have burned through 40,000 farm in nearly a week.