Reply #25: AP: Four charred bodies found in migrant camp

[EFerrari]

Four charred bodies found in migrant camp

By: Associated Press -

SAN DIEGO -- Four charred bodies were found Thursday in what is believed to be a migrant camp just east of San Diego in an area ravaged by wildfires.

The bodies were found in a wooded section near Barrett Junction, along the Mexican border, said Paul Parker, a spokesman for the San Diego County medical examiner's office.

It was unclear how long ago the victims died or if they were victims of this week's ferocious wildfires that have killed at least three other people. They were tentatively identified as three men and one woman.

"They could have been out there a while," Parker said.

The area was burned by the Harris Fire, the same blaze that claimed the life of a 52-year-old man who refused to leave his house in nearby Tecate when the area was evacuated Sunday.

The bodies were discovered as authorities were beginning to allow tens of thousands of people, evacuated earlier in the week, back into areas where more than 482,000 acres -- about 753 square miles -- have been blackened by fires that began breaking out late Saturday.

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/10/26//news/sandiego/4_59_1710_25_07.txt