California Mudslides

A man, left, shouts for help while asking a fireman to search for his missing 4-year old daughter as he is trapped under heavy boulders, mud, and tree trunks from a torrent of mud and water that swept through a campground Friday, Dec. 26, 2003, in Waterman Canyon, north of San Bernardino, Calif.

Rescue workers use a front-end loader to carry a man on stretcher to a near-by ambulance Thursday, Dec. 25, 2003, after the man was trapped in a mudslide at a campground in Waterman Canyon north of San Bernardino, Calif. A mudslide swept over a Greek Orthodox youth camp Thursday, trapping at least 15 people.

San Bernardino City firefighters carry a woman who was rescued from a KOA camp ground in Devore, Calif., where severe flooding trapped campers in a mudslide Thursday, Dec. 25, 2003. Several firefighters had to carry the woman with medical problems out of the camp ground through large amounts of debris and deep mud.

Rescue workers seach for victims Friday, Dec. 26, 2003, after devastating mudslides swept through a Greek Orthodox camp in the Waterman Canyon area of the San Bernadino, Calif., mountains on Thursday. Searchers slogging through deep debris found two people dead Friday and were looking for as many as 10 other people after a drenching Pacific storm unleashed a mudslide in the forested foothills recently scorched by wildfire.

A rescue worker seaches for victims Friday, Dec. 26, 2003, after devastating mudslides swept through a Greek Orthodox camp in the Waterman Canyon area of the San Bernadino, Calif., mountains on Thursday. Searchers slogging through deep debris found two people dead Friday and were looking for as many as 10 other people after a drenching Pacific storm unleashed a mudslide in the forested foothills recently scorched by wildfire.

Mildred Najera, left, and an unidentified women, right, wait Friday, Dec. 26, 2003, to hear news about their family members who are missing folowing a mudslide that swept through the Waterman Canyon area in San Bernadino, Calif.

An ambulance is stuck in the mud, Friday, Dec. 26, 2003, after devastating mudslides swept through a Greek Orthodox camp in the Waterman Canyon area of the San Bernardino, Calif., mountains on Thursday. Searchers slogging through deep debris found two people dead Friday and were looking for as many as 10 other people after a drenching Pacific storm unleashed a mudslide in the forested foothills recently scorched by wildfire.

Search and rescue members search a trailer Friday, Dec. 26, 2003, at the KOA in Devore, Calif., which was crushed and overturned in a mudslide Christmas Day. Heavy rains caused severe flooding Thursday in the area.

Mildred Najera, left, weeps in the arms of an unidentified woman Friday, Dec. 26, 2003, near San Bernardino, Calif., as she waits to hear word about a loved one who was lost in a flash flood and mudslide that swept through Old Waterman Canyon on Thursday north of San Bernardino.

Tonya Best is comforted by her brother, Ron Starter, Friday, Dec. 26, 2003, in Devore, Calif., after finding out their mother, Jancie Bradley, was missing from her mobile home, background, after a mudslide destroyed it and several other mobile homes at the KOA Kampground on Thursday. Their mother's body was found later in the day, 2-3 miles away near Outer Highway 215.

A rescue worker searches for victims Friday, Dec. 26, 2003, after mudslides swept through a Greek Orthodox camp in the San Bernardino, Calif., mountains on Thursday. Searchers slogging through deep debris found seven people dead Friday and were looking for at least nine others after a Pacific storm unleashed a mudslide. Fourteen people were rescued Thursday.

San Bernardino Coroner officials prepare to remove a body found near Saint Sofia Camp near San Bernardino, Calif., Saturday, Dec. 27, 2003. Search and rescue teams found two more victims Saturday in the debris left behind from a mudslide that smothered a mountain church cam,p burned bare by fall wildfires in the San Bernardino Mountains, officials said.

Tiffany Fuller of the San Bernardino County Sheriff Search and Rescue Dog Team looks under logs and debris Saturday, Dec. 27, 2003, while searching for people missing after a mudslide swept through Waterman Canyon north of San Bernardino, Calif., Thursday.

A backhoe is used in the search for bodies as rescue crews work around a building at St. Sofia Camp in Waterman Canyon, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2003, near San Bernardino, Calif. Search and rescue teams found two more victims Saturday in the debris left behind from a mudslide that smothered the mountain church camp, burned bare by fall wildfires in the San Bernardino Mountains, officials said.

Father John Bakas, foreground center, dean of St. Sophia Cathedral of Los Angeles, surveys mudslide damage at St. Sophia Camp, Monday, Dec. 29, 2003, in Waterman Canyon near San Bernardino, Calif., the site of a major mudslide that destroyed a portion of the camp and killed a group of people attending a party on Christmas Day.

Gig Kyriacou, right, consoles his wife, Kathleen, outside the St. Sophia Camp Monday, Dec. 29, 2003, near San Bernardino, Calif. A portion of the camp was destroyed by a mudslide on Christmas Day. The Kyriacous are members of the camp committee.

A boulder and tree trunk dwarf San Bernardino County Fire Department Public Information Officer Capt. John Lansing at St. Sophia Camp, Monday, Dec. 29, 2003, near San Bernardino, Calif. A portion of the camp was destroyed by a mudslide on Christmas Day.

Inmate firefighters on Monday, Dec. 29, 2003, stand looking at the aftermath in the center of St. Sophia Camp while searching for survivors of a Christmas Day mudslide in Waterman Canyon, north of San Bernardino, Calif.

San Bernardino County firefighter Mike Murphy finds children's clothing while sifting through debris at the entrance of St. Sophia Camp in the San Bernardino Mountains near San Bernardino, Calif., Monday, Dec. 29, 2003.

Peter Sellas of San Bernardino County Sheriff Search and Rescue watches "Hunter" search for flood victims at the St. Sophia Camp in the San Bernardino Mountains near San Bernardino, Calif., Monday, Dec. 29, 2003.