A beloved Old Hollywood actress has been identified as one of the victims in the Los Angeles wildfires.
Dalyce Curry, 95, met a horrifying fate in the Eaton Fire that has devastated neighborhoods north of Los Angeles including Altadena.
The retired actress was an extra in iconic movies like The 10 Commandments, Blues Brothers and Lady Sings the Blues.
Altadena, home to a thriving middle-class black community, was where Curry lived - and where first responders found her remains Sunday evening.
Curry's granddaughter, Dalyce Kelley, had dropped her off at home around midnight last Tuesday. Little did she know it would be the last time she saw her grandmother - known to loved ones as "Momma D" - alive.
The Eaton fire broke out hours before, as high winds and dry conditions turned Los Angeles into an inferno.
The next morning, Kelley awoke to a text alert that the power had gone out at her grandmother's house. When she went to check on her, she was met with a police barricade.
An officer said her grandmother's house was gone in the blaze and told her to check a local shelter at the Pasadena Civic Center, but Curry was nowhere to be found.
Eventually, Kelley was escorted to her grandmother's Altadena residence Friday by a National Guardsman. What she found was an utter ruin.
"It was total devastation,' Kelley told ABC7. "Everything was gone except her blue Cadillac."
After days of anxiety, the coroner shared the sad news that Curry had perished in the fire.
"About an hour ago the coroner confirmed her remains were found at the property," Kelley wrote on Facebook.
The Eaton fire has engulfed 14,000 acres in the week since the blaze began, with the flames 35% contained as of Tuesday. The Pacific Palisades fire, the largest of the wildfires, is 18% contained.
The wildfires have killed at least 24 people and destroyed thousands of buildings, including many historic, irreplaceable homes, as whole neighborhoods have been turned to scenes of Biblical devastation. The disaster has also left thousands without power and vulnerable to looters.
As Curry's family mourns the loss of their beloved "Momma D", they are remembering her as a woman full of life.
"She was very active, you would not think she was 95," granddaughter Loree Beamer-Wilkinson said.
Such a terrible way for an old woman to die. May she rest in peace.
