Body found in California wildfire's path marks season's first fatality

By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Crews fighting a fast-moving Northern California wildfire on Friday discovered the charred remains of a person apparently caught in the flames, sheriff's officials said, marking the first such fatality in a particularly intense fire season across the state. Investigators were trying to identify the man or woman found in the debris of a home burned to the ground by the Klamathon fire, which broke out Thursday near the Oregon border during a blistering California heat wave and quickly blackened more than 8,000 acres (3,237 hectares). "We don't know who it is, we're trying to do best we can to identify the person," said Lieutenant Jeremiah LaRue if the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office.