Anne Heche fell into a garage while intoxicated and then

Anne Heche fell into a garage while intoxicated and then plowed through a house, setting it ablaze

Actress Anne Heche was involved in two car accidents within minutes of each other in Los Angeles on Friday. The second crash caused a fire that destroyed the home.

As a result of the fire, Heche, best known for her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres and her acting roles in the 1990s, was taken to a local hospital and intubated.

Heche first crashed her car into a Los Angeles apartment building around 11:00 a.m. Friday morning. She fled the scene and continued on the same block before crashing into another house.

At the scene of the accident, residents of the residential building tried to free Heche from the car. The star fought back, put it in reverse, and sped away.

The TMZ report mentions that photos from around the time of the first crash show Heche may have had a bottle of “alcohol” in the cup holder. In June 2021, Heche said on an episode of her Better Together podcast that she was sober.

Anne Heche fell into a garage while intoxicated and then

After the first crash, Heche’s blue Mini Cooper is shown on a doorbell camera speeding past a house along South Walgrove Avenue in the Mar Vista neighborhood at about 90 miles per hour.

Minutes later, Heche crashed into a two-story house on the same street, setting the house and Heche’s car ablaze.

The home is located approximately 15 miles from Heche’s home in the Eastern Columbia Lofts building in the Broadway Theater District of downtown Los Angeles.

According to the Los Angeles Fire Department, the crash caused “structural impairment and the outbreak of a serious fire.”

In a tweet, LAFD said it took 59 firefighters 65 minutes to put out the fire. The house is now “uninhabitable”. The owner of the home was unharmed as they were in the back yard when Heche charged into the front of the building.

Pictures and videos showed her dazed behind the wheel after the first accident when a witness held her in her car with a red-topped bottle.  It's not clear what was inside the container, but it looked like a vodka bottle

Pictures and videos showed her dazed behind the wheel after the first accident when a witness held her in her car with a red-topped bottle. It’s not clear what was inside the container, but it looked like a vodka bottle

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An earlier shot also shows Heche shortly before the second accident behind the wheel with a vodka bottle with a red cap in the cup holder

In a report from the crime scene prior to Heche’s extraction at around 11:30 a.m., Fox 11’s Stu Mandel said, “If anyone’s alive in there, it’s going to be a miracle.” Minutes later, Heche is seen being carried from the crime scene.

A witness told NBC Los Angeles that a crane was used to get Heche out of her car.

Los Angeles Fire Department Captain Erik Scott told the media: “We really had a multifaceted incident here. We had a serious traffic accident, we had a woman trapped in it, we had a car that caught fire and then we had a house that caught a serious fire, which is marked in red. It’s destroyed at this point.’

The ‘Six Days, Seven Nights’ star was taken to a local hospital. At the time of writing, she is in critical condition as she is being treated for burns. Heche is expected to survive

According to TMZ, Heche was acting erratically.

Video from the crime scene shows Heche being carried away with his clothes burned and covered with a white sheet. At one point, Heche sits up on the stretcher and gestures at the firefighters while seemingly trying to escape.

Burn victims are regularly wrapped in a sterile cloth doused with sterile water to cool the wounds.

A top view shows the massive damage caused to the Mini by Anne Heche's car accident

A top view shows the massive damage caused to the Mini by Anne Heche’s car accident

Smoke rises from the roof of the home that the LA Fire Department says was destroyed

Smoke rises from the roof of the home that the LA Fire Department says was destroyed

Shocking images also show the burned-out wreckage of their Mini Clubman as it was dragged out of a hedge opposite a school in the Mar Vista area

Shocking images also show the burned-out wreckage of their Mini Clubman as it was dragged out of a hedge opposite a school in the Mar Vista area

The incident took place in the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles. There were no other injuries from the crash.

Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, a law enforcement source said Heche was “felt to be under the influence and unpredictable.”

“Her condition prevents doctors from running tests to determine if she was driving under the influence,” TMZ reported.

spoke exclusively to neighbor David Manpearl, who caught the incident on his doorbell camera.

Manpearl’s home office overlooks his front yard on a quiet residential street about five houses down from where Heche plowed into a house.

“Around 10:50 a.m. I heard a car speed past and looked out my window where I saw the car going about 90 mph. Within seconds I heard a loud crack and I ran outside in my flip flops knowing someone was hurt and boy was I right.

Manpearl, who has lived in the family-friendly neighborhood, said he ran to the intersection where the Mini crashed into the house.

An interior photograph shows that the Mini Clubman's airbag blew out after the impact, along with most of the decor

An interior photograph shows that the Mini Clubman’s airbag blew out after the impact, along with most of the decor

Heche is seen being removed from the scene on a stretcher and taken to a waiting ambulance

Heche is seen being removed from the scene on a stretcher and taken to a waiting ambulance

“Before I approached the car, I saw the resident of the home standing barefoot in the rubble. She was in shock and desperately begged me to help her get her pets out of the house. I was able to get the leashes for their two small dogs and escort them out the side of their house. She had her two dogs with her and a turtle.’

Manpearl explained how he then went to the car to help the driver who was trapped between the airbag and the seat.

“I tried to speak to her a couple of times and asked her if she was ok but she didn’t answer so I had to get closer. I was able to open the back door of the car and half crawled inside. This time when I asked her if everything was ok, she said no.”

Manpearl asked Heche if she could raise her hand to see if she was okay and she said no and grunted. At that moment, the hero-neighbor felt water dripping on him, only to realize another neighbor sprayed a hose on the car, which had now caught fire and was rapidly spreading over the walls of the house.

“I tried to speak to her again and realized there was smoke and the flames were now on either side of me, so I quickly got out of the car.”

The engineer went to the front of the house and tried to put out the flames with another hose, but found this was useless as the whole house was on fire.

Heche arrives at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles for the premiere of Netflix's The Unforgivable in December 2021

Heche arrives at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles for the premiere of Netflix’s The Unforgivable in December 2021

Heche and her longtime partner Ellen DeGeneres pictured together in 2000

Heche and her longtime partner Ellen DeGeneres pictured together in 2000

In the meantime, almost ten fire engines had arrived at the scene.

“I was certain the driver was dead. That she was burned. It took firefighters at least 30 minutes to put out the flames, get the car out, and pull her out of the car.”

“I was surprised to find out it was Anne Heche. I think I knew she had problems in the past.”

The owner of the house, along with all her pets, including the turtle, spent the rest of the day at Manpearl’s, where neighbors brought her food and clothes. The LAFD said her entire house is now destroyed.

The 53-year-old actress is best known for her roles in hit films from the 1990s like ‘Volcano’, ‘Donnie Brasco’ and ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer.’ In her early career, Heche won a Daytime Emmy Award for her role on the soap opera Another World.

Heche has long claimed that she was blacklisted by Hollywood after her lesbian relationship with Elle DeGeneres. The couple were together between 1997 and 2000.

After this relationship, Heche married James Tupper and had a son together named Atlas.

In a 2021 interview, Heche said she was “patient zero” of the drop-out culture.

In 2000, Heche was arrested after walking to someone else’s property in Fresno in her bra in California. This resulted in her being hospitalized.

A witness said at the time: “She went on to tell me that she was God and would take everyone back to heaven with her in some kind of spaceship.”

In her 2001 memoir Call Me Crazy, Heche wrote that at one point in her life, “I thought I was from another planet. I think I was there straight away.’

Heche, a native of Aurora, most recently starred in the action picture 13 Minutes, in which she starred alongside Thora Birch, Amy Smart and Will Peltz.