SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. -- Searchers in San Bernardino, Calif., found two people dead amid the partially buried buildings of a youth camp. They were searching for eight others still missing since a mudslide, triggered by heavy rain, swept through forested foothills recently scorched by wildfire.

Relatives and authorities said at least 24 people had been celebrating the holidays at two camp cabins when mud and water rushed through the structures Christmas Day.

Fourteen people were rescued from the area Thursday, some pulled from the mud and from beneath fallen trees. With the roads washed out Friday morning, about a dozen searchers in orange jumpsuits hiked over the rough, mud-covered terrain to resume the search for those still missing at Saint Sophia Camp in Waterman Canyon.

The two people were found about 8 a.m., said Chip Patterson, spokesman for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. They were not immediately identified. The other missing people range in age from six months to 45 years old, he said.

Rescue workers picked through piles of splintered wood and other debris. Two cabins had been washed away, including one that may have had people inside. Other camp structures were untouched by the mudslides.

Among the missing was the camp's caretaker, George Monzon, said the Rev. John Bakas, who helps lead the camp. Bakas said there was no organized camp event on Christmas Day and he did not know who the other victims may have been.

"It was not anyone from any camping program," Bakas said by telephone. "We don't know who would be up there ... All we know is that the caretaker at the property was missing."

The relative of one man who was treated at a hospital, 37-year-old Gilberto Juarez, said Juarez had saved his 3-year-old daughter Stephanie, but his wife and 7-year-old daughter were lost.

"He said he helped the little girl up and when he turned they were gone, the water had risen too much and had swept the cabin away," said Juarez's sister-in-law, Mildred Najara of Fontana.

"They became separated when the water rushed in," she said in Spanish.

Najara said Juarez's wife, Rosa Najara, 40, and daughter, 7-year-old Katrine, were among those still missing early Friday.

She said they didn't intend to stay overnight at the camp.

Ten victims covered in mud were treated at a hospital for minor injuries, authorities said.

The storm dumped more than three-and-a-half inches of rain on areas heavily scarred by wildfires, flooding streets in San Bernardino and elsewhere, cutting power and causing mudslides. The blazes in October and November -- the most severe in state history -- burned off vegetation that normally would help shore up the steep terrain, leaving the ground prone to mudslides.

Meanwhile, road crews spent about an hour cleaning up a mudslide along state Route 79 near Rancho Cuyamaca, Calif., Thursday.

The slide was reported about 3 p.m. just south of Paso Pichacho Park, and California Highway Patrol Officer Phil Konstantin said the road was cleared within an hour.