Sports activities affected as Former Child Star Rory Sykes Dies in Los Angeles Fires

Sports activities affected as Former Child Star Rory Sykes Dies in Los Angeles Fires

Former child star Rory Sykes, who was born blind and had cerebral palsy, passed away on Wednesday as flames in Los Angeles drew closer to his house, but he wouldn’t leave, according to his mother.

Shelley Sykes posted on X on January 9th, saying, “It is with great sadness that I have to announce the death of my beautiful son @Rorysykes to the Malibu fires yesterday.” “My heart is completely broken.”
Shelley Skyes told 9 News Australia that Rory did not want to leave his cottage because he had stomach issues and swollen feet when the Los Angeles fires came. According to her, there had been a fire two weeks prior as well, but it was swiftly put out by firefighters.

As a child, 32-year-old Rory Callum Sykes, starred in the late-’90s British TV show “Kiddy Kapers,” and later worked as a professional motivational speaker. He was living in a self-contained cottage on his family’s 17-acre Malibu estate, which burned down Wednesday as the Palisades Fire spread westward. Many surgeries and a “lifetime of physiotherapy” allowed him to see and walk again.

When she noticed embers on her son’s roof at around six in the morning, she reached for a hose to spray the roof, but it seemed like the water had been turned off. She claimed that in order to request assistance in rescuing her son, she drove to the fire station. The three cottages were completely destroyed by fire by the time firefighters got there, according to Shelley Sykes.

She commented on X, “The water was turned off by @LVMWD Las Virgenes Municipal Water, so I couldn’t use a hose to put out the cinders on his roof.” “All day, not even the fifty courageous firefighters had water!” she wrote. An query from NTD, The Epoch, was not immediately answered by Las Virgenes Municipal.

Rory Sykes was born in Britain and raised in Australia. His handicaps were the result of a car crash while in the womb. His website describes him as “a well-traveled gamer turned investor and entrepreneurial philanthropist,” and “a professional speaker who loves to play RuneScape and dabble in code.” In recent years, he has been an online gamer, investor, and public speaker. Rory Skyes also co-founded the Happy Charity alongside his mother in 2005, fundraising for sick children globally.

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