Journalists Find Human Remains in Burn Area
A reporter and a photographer from the Press-Enterprise in Riverside discovered human skeletal remains Wednesday morning while working on an unrelated assignment in the lower part of the Lytle Creek wash, which burned in last year’s Grand Prix wildfire.
San Bernardino County coroners recovered a skull, a lower jawbone and a femur from the area but were unable to conduct a more thorough search because of flash-flood warnings.
Coroner’s officials have not yet identified the remains. Alexis Gray, the county’s forensic anthropologist, said markings on the bones suggested the remains were already in the creek wash before last fall’s fires.
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