Four evacuees reported dead

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Four San Diego County evacuees have died in the last two days, two in the process of being moved from medical facilities, a county medical examiner official said.

Donald Swarting, 92, was being prepared for evacuation overnight from Mount Miguel Covenant Village Health Facility in Spring Valley when he complained of shortness of breath and chest pain, said Rick Poggemeyer, operations administrator for the medical examiner’s office. Swarting was helped to the bathroom and became unresponsive. He was pronounced dead at 4:50 a.m.

On Monday, 91-year-old Alla Robinson stopped breathing en route from Fallbrook Hospital, which was being evacuated, to Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside. She was pronounced dead at 3:30 p.m.

Separately, Poggemeyer said, a 62-year-old woman who had evacuated from her Rancho Bernardo home died Monday night of head trauma after falling down eight steps and hitting her head while leaving a restaurant. Suzanne Casey had initially gone to Qualcomm Stadium, but then went to a hotel in Pacific Beach. The restaurant was located next to the hotel.

And 95-year-old June Brewer was found dead about 7:20 a.m. in a hotel in Old Town San Diego. She had been evacuated Monday from her Rancho Bernardo home.

-- Charles Ornstein