Kevin Devine was final seen outdoors of his Boston Road condominium complicated in Altadena on Jan. 7, hours after the lethal Eaton fireplace ignited. Weeks handed with out phrase of his destiny.
The county medical expert’s workplace has confirmed that Devine, 54, died in that fireside. His stays had been found April 2 within the 900 block of Boston Road, one block east of Lake Avenue.
He’s the 18th individual recognized to have died within the Eaton fireplace, and the one sufferer to perish east of Lake Avenue. Devine was recognized within the Medical Examiner’s web site on April 22.
An actor and substitute trainer, Devine spoke on the night of Jan. 7 to his frightened mom in Michigan, who referred to as after seeing reviews of fires in Los Angeles.
“I mentioned, ‘Kevin, you must depart,’ ” Margaret Devine advised The Occasions in January. “He mentioned, ‘I’m OK, Mother.’ ”
Devine’s landlord noticed him in his automotive outdoors the condominium complicated round 9 p.m., roughly three hours after the fireplace broke out on a hillside above Eaton Canyon Wash. It was his final reported sighting.
As emergency crews combed the charred streets of Altadena within the following days, Devine was nowhere to be discovered. There was no signal of his automotive. His household referred to as hospitals and evacuation shelters. They started talking of him up to now tense.
On April 2, a particular operations group from the medical expert’s workplace responded to a report of potential human stays discovered on the block the place he was final seen. The workplace has since confirmed that they belonged to Devine, who died of burns and smoke inhalation.
Thirty individuals are recognized to have died within the Palisades and Eaton fires, which collectively destroyed greater than 16,000 houses in Los Angeles County in early January. All have been publicly recognized however one, an individual whose stays had been discovered on Las Lomas Avenue in Pacific Palisades.
Reporter Noah Goldberg contributed to this report.
