U.S. Forest Service reports detail how conditions deteriorated on San Bernardino Peak on Sept, 17, 2020, and led to the death of hotshot crew boss Charlie Morton.
U.S. Forest Service reports detail how conditions deteriorated on San Bernardino Peak on Sept, 17, 2020, and led to the death of hotshot crew boss Charlie Morton.
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Seven miles up San Francisquito Canyon in far northern Los Angeles County, at an unmarked spot on an abandoned county road, there’s a pile of rubble. Obscured by the cottonwoods and willows that cluster along trickling San Francisquito Creek, the site is indistinguishable from the surrounding shale and sandstone until you’re standing nearly on top of it. Further west, ragged concrete blocks the size of shipping containers lie scattered across the canyon floor. These are the remnants of greater Los Angeles’s deadliest day, obscured from public view by time, neglect, and painstaking effort.