LOS ANGELES — President Bush toured Southern California on Thursday as investigators got down to the work of determining how one sunny fall day last weekend exploded into blazes now in their fifth day.
Recovery crews, moving from house to house in towns where the fires have passed, found the bodies of two people in the shell of a home near Poway, northeast of San Diego. And in the early evening, San Diego officials said, Border Patrol agents found the burned bodies of four people who may have been killed after crossing the Mexican border.
They were the first confirmed fatalities since Sunday, when a man was killed in Protrero, near the Mexican border.
Bush, joined by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, also a Republican, visited the charred remains of neighborhoods, met distraught residents and exhausted fire crews, and viewed fires that continue to burn throughout the region. By Thursday, the fires had destroyed 1,800 homes, injured 57 people and burned more than 487,000 acres.
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