McKinney Fire: Two found dead in burned car
Two people were found dead in a vehicle that was burned in the path of the McKinney Fire, the Siskiyou County sheriff’s office has announced.
The bodies were discovered just before 10 a.m. Sunday in a residential driveway along Doggett Creek Road, north of Highway 96 and west of the community of Klamath River.
The sheriff’s office said no more information on the deaths would be released until the victims are identified and their families notified.
The McKinney Fire has burned more than 50,000 acres (80 square miles) in the mountains west of Yreka.
Doggett Creek Road has been under evacuation order since the early hours of the wildfire, which started Friday around 2 p.m.
The deaths are the first this year associated with a California wildfire.