By Rebecca Cohen and Diana Dasrath -
NBC News
English model and actress Cara Delevingne said she is "heartbroken" after a raging fire consumed her home in Studio City, California, this Friday.
"My heart is broken today. I can't believe it. Life can change in the blink of an eye, so you have to appreciate what you have," Delevingne wrote on Friday on her social networks where she also thanked the firefighters and people "with all her heart." who helped put out the flames.
An aerial view of the burned home of model and actress Cara Delevingne.Jae C. Hong / AP
The Los Angeles Fire Department reported that crews responded to the two-story, 6,650-square-foot home at 6:13 a.m. Friday and found a fire that had already "engulfed a room in the back and had intensified." in the attic."
The cause of the fire is under investigation, fire officials said.
When firefighters confirmed that no one was in the home — Delevingne is in London playing Sally Bowles in the
Cabaret
production — they began trying to put out the flames, but as they moved inside the house, the roof collapsed, according to the Department firemen's.
Cara Delevingne at the Actors Guild Awards, February 26, 2023.Getty Images
"In the end, it took 94 firefighters, two hours and 16 minutes to enter, control and extinguish the flames," authorities said.
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One of the firefighters was taken to a local hospital in "fair condition" and a person who was in the home suffered mild smoke inhalation.
In a story on her Instagram account, Delevingne confirmed that her two cats, who lived in the house, were safe.
According to The Associated Press news agency, the burned house matches one that appeared in a 2021 profile in Architectural Digest magazine.
It was made of white brick, with two swimming pools and two trampolines in the backyard, it was built in 1941 for the Von der Ahe family, founders of the Vons supermarket chain.
Delevingne and her designer added playful elements, including a costume room for parties, a bathroom that is a monument to David Bowie, poker and billiards rooms, and a ball pit.
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"If I'm having a bad day, I just go in the ball pit," Delevingne told the magazine.
"You can't really cry in a ball pit."
Delevingne, 31, was born in London and became known as a model in the early 2010s, then began acting, appearing in the 2016 DC Comics film
Suicide Squad
and in
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
. director Luc Besson from 2017.
With information from
The Associated Press.