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Jan 25, 2008 4:37 pm US/Pacific

Storm Raises Mudslide, Flood Concerns

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LOS ANGELES (AP) ― The latest storm to hit Southern California has unleashed little havoc so far Sunday morning, but forecasters are warning that wetter weather is still to come and with it the possibility of mudslides and floods.

Searchers in the mountains northeast of Los Angeles recovered the body of a third avalanche victim Saturday. He's identified as 60-year-old Christopher Allport, an avid backcountry skier, who was also a character actor on television.

Allport had parts in such shows as "ER," Felicity" and "Matlock."

Meantime, a Los Angeles County sheriff's helicopter has rescued a fourth person who had been missing in the avalanches.

Twenty-four-year-old Oscar Gonzales Junior got lost Friday while snowboarding on an unmarked trail near the Mountain High ski resort. He says he made a "wrong decision" and "hit a rock."

He says he kept walking in the snow to keep warm and thought constantly about his 5-and-a-half-year-old daughter. As Gonzales puts it in an interview with the Riverside Press-Enterprise, "I couldn't stand leaving my daughter."

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