LOS ANGELES — More than a dozen people have died in San Bernardino County’s mountain communities in the wake of back-to-back snowstorms that dumped historic amounts of snow — more than 100 inches in places — stranding many in their homes for two weeks, county officials said.
The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said Thursday it has responded to 13 deaths since Feb. 23, though investigators have determined that only one had a “direct correlation to the weather,” according to a news release. That person died at a hospital after a car crash during the storm.
Four were people who either died at a hospital or were in hospice, officials said, and therefore will not be investigated. The rest are under investigation by the coroner’s division of the Sheriff’s Department.
