California corrections authorities are searching for an inmate who walked away from a fire camp in the Sylmar area of Los Angeles.
Officials say minimum-security inmate Fernando Deras was determined to be missing from the Holton fire camp during a routine inmate count at 1:25 a.m. Monday.
Local law enforcement and the California Highway Patrol have been notified.
The 31-year-old Deras was serving a four-year sentence for corporal injury.
The camp trains inmates to serve as wildland firefighters.
Associated Press
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 30, 2019. Read the original PDF.