{"id":30281,"date":"2025-01-12T02:24:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T02:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/12\/australian-man-dies-in-california-fires-as-flames-engulf-malibu-home\/"},"modified":"2025-01-12T02:24:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T02:24:31","slug":"australian-man-dies-in-california-fires-as-flames-engulf-malibu-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/12\/australian-man-dies-in-california-fires-as-flames-engulf-malibu-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian man dies in California fires as flames engulf Malibu home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rory Sykes confirmed dead as heartbroken mother claims there was no water to put out cinders on roof of his home<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>California fires: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/jan\/11\/california-fires-la-fires-live-updates-latest-news\">follow live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An Australian man has died in the Californian wildfires, his \u201ctotally heartbroken\u201d mother has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The British-born Australian citizen <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rorysykes\">Rory Sykes<\/a>, 32, died after flames engulfed his self-contained cottage on a family property near Malibu, his mother, Shelley Sykes, said in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s breaking news email<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/12\/australian-man-dies-in-california-fires-as-flames-engulf-malibu-home\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rory Sykes confirmed dead as heartbroken mother claims there was no water to put out cinders on roof of his home California fires: follow live updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast An Australian man has died in the Californian wildfires, his \u201ctotally heartbroken\u201d mother has confirmed. The British-born Australian &#8230; <a title=\"Australian man dies in California fires as flames engulf Malibu home\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/12\/australian-man-dies-in-california-fires-as-flames-engulf-malibu-home\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Australian man dies in California fires as flames engulf Malibu home\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}