Kevin Devine was final seen exterior of his Boston Avenue residence complicated in Altadena on Jan. 7, hours after the lethal Eaton hearth ignited. Weeks handed with out phrase of his destiny.
The county health worker’s workplace has confirmed that Devine, 54, died in that fireside. His stays had been found April 2 within the 900 block of Boston Avenue, one block east of Lake Avenue.
He’s the 18th individual recognized to have died within the Eaton hearth, 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 instructor, Devine spoke on the night of Jan. 7 to his apprehensive mom in Michigan, who referred to as after seeing studies of fires in Los Angeles.
“I mentioned, ‘Kevin, it’s a must to go away,’ ” Margaret Devine advised The Instances in January. “He mentioned, ‘I’m OK, Mother.’ ”
Devine’s landlord noticed him in his automobile exterior the residence complicated round 9 p.m., roughly three hours after the hearth 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 automobile. His household referred to as hospitals and evacuation shelters. They started talking of him prior to now tense.
On April 2, a particular operations group from the health worker’s workplace responded to a report of doable 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 properties 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.
