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Authorities searched Thursday but did not find the bodies of two people reportedly found by a family member in an area of the Angeles National Forest that was blackened by a recent wildfire.
Firefighters were called about 2:20 p.m. to an area along North San Gabriel Canyon Road, near Morris Dam above Azusa, that was scorched by the San Gabriel Complex Fire last month, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
Homicide detectives were dispatched, but authorities did not immediately locate any bodies and searches were suspended until Friday, according to Deputy Trina Schrader of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
Ricardo Pardo, the brother of a 16-year-old boy who went camping in the area just hours before the fire started the morning of June 20, told ABC7 that he found the bodies, and thinks they are those of his brother and cousin.
He, along with family members and friends, have been searching for the pair and found skeletal remains of two people about 2 this afternoon, Pardo told Channel 7.
It will take about 90 minutes of mostly uphill climbing to get to the rugged area where the bodies were reportedly located, Schrader said.
–City News Service