(ANSA) - ROME, AUGUST 06 - American actress Anne Heche, 53, is hospitalized in critical condition after crashing her blue Mini Cooper into a house in Los Angeles.
This is according to what was reported by US media such as CNN and the Tmz website.
Los Angeles firefighters reported that her car went off the road and crashed into a two-story house in Los Angeles' Mar Vista neighborhood, "causing structural damage and exploding in a major fire."
Heche was "taken to a hospital in the area with critical conditions."
59 firefighters were employed and it took 65 minutes to contain and completely extinguish the fire, according to reports from the fire brigade.
La Heche, former partner of actress Ellen DeGeneres, is known for her role in the soap opera 'Another World', 'Destini' in Italy, for which she won a Daytime Emmy in 1991 and featured in numerous films from the 1990s, including including 'Six Days, Seven Nights', 'Donnie Brasco' and 'I Know What You Did LastSummer'.
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