Two more die in California fires
From correspondents in Los Angeles
October 30, 2003
AT least 20 people including a fireman have been killed in bushfires that have scorched more than 2470 square kilometres of California, officials said today.
A firefighter was killed today as he battled a huge 93,600-hectare blaze near the city of San Diego, while authorities said they had found another charred body in a home burned out in the area.
"We discovered a badly burned victim in a destroyed house this morning," said Adriana Uribe of the San Diego Sheriff's Department.
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CDF) said that one fireman was killed and three others critically injured as they battled to save a town near San Diego from the fire.
The latest confirmed deaths brings to 20 the number of people confirmed to have died as a result of the fires, which have burned 2,125 homes in the past nine days, including two in neighbouring Mexico.
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