Beloved Hollywood actress tragically dies as she's killed in LA wildfires

A former Hollywood actress has tragically died in the Los Angeles wildfires.

95-year-old Dalyce Curry, who appeared as an extra in The Ten Commandments and The Blues Brothers, was found dead at her Altadena home in California. Her remains were found at the property, which has been burned to the ground by the Eaton Fire.

It was confirmed on Sunday (January 12) by the coroner that Dalyce's remains had been found. One of Curry's great-grandchildren, Dallyce Kelley, announced the sad news on Facebook.

She wrote: "About an hour ago the coroner confirmed her remains were found at the property," Curry, known affectionately as "Momma D" to her family, had been dropped her off at her home at midnight on Tuesday by Kelley after a visit to the hospital.

Kelley, Curry's caregiver, woke up to a text telling her that the power had gone out in her grandmother's house and headed over to the Altadeana area. Sadly, an officer told her the property had "totally burned down".

The officer suggested she go to the Pasadena Civic Center, where residents displaced by the fire had been sent. On Friday, Kelley was taken to her grandmother's home, where she saw the property had been completely destroyed by the blaze apart from the actresses' car.

Kelly said: "It was total devastation. Everything was gone except her blue Cadillac,". On Sunday, before finding out her grandmother had passed, Kelley told Eyewitness News she was "still praying for a miracle". She said: "Honestly we don't feel very hopeful that she's still here with us."

Kelley previously told KABC: "Our souls are aching, our hearts are broken. She loved Altadena. There is no one who loved that city more than my grandmother."

Loree Beamer-Wilkinson, Kelley's sister, added: "We are just kind of in a wait-and-hold pattern right now. It's very hard to be waiting and not know anything."

The Eaton Fire has torn through over 14,000 acres in Altadena, California. The Southern California fires have killed at least 24 people since their outbreak.

Paying tribute to her great-grandmother, Beamer-Wilkinson said to KABC: "She just loved life, and at 95 she was still very active. She looked beautiful – she took really good care of herself, she took great pride in who she was and who she represented -- and she was an amazing grandmother. I felt so privileged to know this woman and to have her as my grandmother."

Beamer-Wilkinson added; "They have to do better with the emergency system because there's a that was a very elderly kind of community. There's a lot of retirees there, and we can't just rely on the cellphone, because elderly people don't really do cellphones.

"They don't. That's not the only way we should notify people when there's evacuation orders. And why did it not happen earlier? Why was I allowed to be to have access to her home at midnight and not have any danger warnings? No highway signs up the way saying, 'This is evacuation zone'."