California wildfire kills two: Charred bodies of elderly couple pulled from mobile home as officials warn death toll will rise

Sunday, June 26, 2016
By Paul Martin

Remains of two people found inside a mobile home in south Sierra Nevada
Forensic exam needed to conclude if bodies belonged to people or animals
Burned down home was one of 150 destroyed by the out of control inferno
Entire blocks have been reduce to rubble and 2,500 homes remain at risk

By JAY AKBAR
DAILYMAIL.COM
26 June 2016

Rescuers have removed what appear to be the charred remains of two elderly people killed by the inferno raging through California.

Their bodies were recovered from a burned down mobile home in the South Lake area of southern Sierra Nevada on Thursday.
The pair, who are yet to be named, were overcome by smoke as they tried to flee, county Sheriff Donny Youngblood said.

They were so horribly burned that a forensic exam is required to ensure the remains were human and not animal, said Kern County Sheriff spokesman Ray Pruitt.

Their home was one of 150 homes destroyed by the wildfire which has also scorched 30,000 acres of land.

Allen Montgomery, 40, who lives across the street from the couple, said the woman was bedridden.

He said their house vanished in smoke when he fled his own home on Thursday, adding: ‘There was so much smoke you could barely see it.’

When he came back Friday, Montgomery said he saw the man’s body about 20 feet from the house.

Everett Evans, 45, also managed to escape as the fire tore through the South Lake community towards his mobile home.
He said: ‘When you hear a freight train, it’s time to leave. You could hear it, you could see it, you could smell it.’

Evans, his father, son and son’s girlfriend all fled but when they returned the next day, their neighborhood was unrecognizable.

All that remained was a burned American flag wafting in the wind on a flagpole above the rubble of his home.

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