Flames from the McKinney Fire burn beyond firefighters on the Klamath National Forest Sunday. [AP photo]
Firefighters found two bodies Sunday morning inside a vehicle that was burned in the path of the McKinney Fire, the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office reported Monday morning.
The vehicle, found around 9:57 a.m., was located in a residential driveway along Doggett Creek Road, which is off Highway 96, west of the community of Klamath River, California.
The identities of the deceased have not been released pending notification of next of kin.
Early Monday morning two people were arrested in the McKinney Fire evacuation zone and booked into the Siskiyou County Jail. One suspect was arrested for possession of burglary tools and the other for burglary within an evacuation zone, the sheriff’s office said.
Police said they planned to continue a heavy presence in the fire evacuation zone.
The McKinney started Friday night about six miles south of the Oregon border northwest of Yreka. The fire was reported to be more than 51,000 hectares uncontained as of Sunday morning.
