Search and rescue teams Saturday found the bodies of two more people caught by a mudslide that smothered a mountain church camp in a canyon burned bare by fall wildfires in the San Bernardino Mountains.

Seven bodies have been recovered, and seven people remain missing, from a Christmas Day mudslide that ran through St. Sophia Camp. Another mudslide Thursday killed two people at another campground about five miles away.

It wasn't immediately known whether the bodies recovered Saturday, found near the camp chapel, were those of children or adults. Four of the other five bodies were of children, and several children were among those still unaccounted for.

Officials called off the search Saturday night and will resume 8 a.m. Sunday.

The San Bernardino County Coroner's office has identified six of the seven victims from the Christmas day mudslides above San Bernardino. Nine people are still reported missing.

Deputy County Coroner Rocky Shaw said today that among the five victims from the St. Sophia campground are Ramon Meza, 29, Windy Monzon, 17, her sister Raquel Monzon, 9, and Jose Pablo Navarro, 11. Shaw said the remains of an unidentified male, 12-14 years of age, also was found.

Shaw also confirmed the identities of the two victims from a KOA Campground: Carol Eugene Nuss, 57, a Kansas man, and Janice Arlene Stout-Bradley, 60 of San Bernardino, the manager of the KOA camp.

"Identification of children is always difficult," Shaw said. "It requires photographic evidence or face to face meetings with parents. And yes, given the conduition of the remains, it has been very difficult." He said removal of some of the bodies took five hours, because of the mud and debris.

San Bernardino County Sheriff's spokeswoman Cindy Beavers said searchers were working in difficult terrain today with mud knee-high to chest-high in some spots. More than 200 searchers aided by helicopters have fanned out in Waterman Canyon, including firefighters and volunteer search-and-rescue workers. Eight search dogs have also joined the operation, as anxious friends and family members await word at the Wildwood Park command center.

The weary volunteers and emergency personnel searched throughout the night in Waterman Canyon above San Bernardino, looking with dwindling hope for any survivors.

"There is a lot of mud and a lot of debris up there. We're doing the best we can. It's all I can do" said volunteer searcher John Brice.

"There's so much mud and so much debris, it's just a mess," said volunteer Richard Dexter.

At the KOA Campground, people who survived the mudslide returned today to remove their trailers and whatever else they could recover.

Highway 18 was reported re-opened today.

Heavy rains and mudslides opened a 400-foot-deep gash beneath one lane of Highway 18 near the Crestline interchange, Caltrans spokeswoman Ivy Estrada said by phone. Repairs could take three months. The route to the mountain resorts is down to one lane at that location.

Mud, rocks and debris forced the closure of Highway 18 from 40th Street in San Bernardino to Daly Canyon Road, and Highway 138 from Highway 18 to Crest Forest Drive. Caltrans workers hoped to reopen Highway 138 and portions of Highway 18 by today, Estrada said.

Fire and emergency officials have been fearful that winter rains could trigger flooding and mudslides down hillsides denuded by the wildfires that blackened a wide front along the San Bernardino and San Gabriel mountains this fall.

Despite preparations, which included cleaning culverts and catch basins and staking fiber landscape netting over naked hillsides, flood and road agencies were surprised by the ferocity of the storm and the volume of water and mud that spilled across roads and down canyons. Some San Bernardino County communities received up to eight inches of rain Thursday- three times what was expected, according to the National Weather Service. More rain is forecast for Monday.

"You do all the preparations that are humanly possible," Estrada said. "But there's a point at which you can't handle it anymore."

Some of the worst of the destruction occurred in Waterman Canyon, above the northern edge of San Bernardino. October's Old Fire began in the canyon and burned away much of the vegetation that normally would hold the hillside in place.

At dawn Friday, rescue crews renewed an air and ground search for victims missing overnight after mud and debris swept down the canyon, destroying a church camp. Officials were bringing in lights Friday night to aid in the search, which they said could go on for days.

But officials cautioned that some of those swept down the canyon may never be found. Downstream from the camp, searchers found shoes, jackets and other clothing, which could have been stripped off victims as they tumbled down the canyon, one searcher said.

In the weeks or months ahead, "more water flow could uncover a body we don't find now," said Mike Cardwell, deputy chief of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.

Even if campers survived the initial mudslide, they face hazards from hypothermia and from rocks and debris that continue to tumble down the hillsides.

"Just imagine yourself in 40-degree mud with the mud sucking all the heat out of you," San Bernardino County Fire Marshal Peter Brierty said. "And this stuff is moving logs 12 to 18 inches (in diameter) and 20 feet long."

No warning

Two bodies were found at about 8 a.m. Friday downstream from the St. Sophia Camp, said San Bernardino County sheriff's Deputy Kris Phillips. Three other bodies turned up later in the day.

Among those still unaccounted for Friday were the camp's caretaker, George Monzon, and his family, said the Rev. John Bakas, who helps lead the Greek Orthodox camp. The camp is owned by St. Sophia Cathedral in Los Angeles. Nine of the 14 people initially believed to be missing were children ranging in age from 8 months to 16 years, San Bernardino County sheriff's spokesman Chip Patterson said.

St. Sophia's is near the upper end of Old Waterman Canyon Road, a two-lane road that winds through the bottom of the steep and narrow canyon. The areawas burned by October's 91,000-acre Old Fire.

Monzon lived at the camp with his wife, two daughters, ages 17 and 9, and an infant son, a family member said. The wife and children were among those whose bodies were found Friday, another relative said.

The 14 people rescued from Waterman Canyon on Thursday range in age from 6 months to 45 years.

Only one of the 14 was still hospitalized Friday, Patterson said. The survivors apparently were inside one or two of the camp's many cabins when the mudslide hit, Patterson said.

Mildred Najera identified two of the missing as her sister, Rosa, and her 5-year-old niece, Katherine. Her brother-in-law, Gilberto Juarez, had been able to save only the couple's 3-year-old daughter, Stephanie, she said.

Juarez was among 10 people treated for minor injuries. Survivors included a man who was found buried waist-deep in mud and debris and trapped beneath a log. Rescue crews were able to cut the log free Thursday afternoon and carry the man across a creek to safety, San Bernardino County fire Capt. Rick McClintock said.

Another survivor was a boy about 13. He told firefighters the group had been in two cabins at the church camp when cascading mud and debris broke loose from the charred hillsides, sweeping away one structure.

The boy told firefighters he was in the cabin moments before the slide hit. The next thing he knew, firefighters were pulling him from the water, Brierty said.

"The report from the survivors is that (the inundation) was almost instantaneous - no warning," Brierty said of the mud, water and debris that slammed into the camp.

The group was apparently friends and family of the caretaker, and the gathering was not an official church function, Patterson said. Monzon had no authority to bring people into the camp, Bakas said.

"He's a wonderful, jovial, people-oriented person. The kids loved him. He was one of those lovable uncle-types," Bakas said. "We're very concerned about the uncertainty of everything."

'It just came down'

At the KOA campground near Devore, authorities evacuated 52 people Thursday evening. Three of them suffered broken bones and hypothermia. Rescuers also discovered a dead bear and a dead horse in the campground.

Two people died when they were swept down the canyon by mud and water. The bodies of Janice Arlene Stout-Bradley, 60, the KOA site manager, and Carroll Eugene Nuss, 57, from Wilmington, Kan., were found about two miles from the campsite. Stout-Bradley's body was found snagged on the limb of a tree half-buried in mud.

Stout-Bradley had managed the camp for 10 years, said camp maintenance worker Scott Ring. Nuss is believed to be an insurance adjuster who was there to assess damage from the wildfires, San Bernardino County sheriff's spokeswoman Robin Haynal said.

John Gordon of Glendora said he was with Stout-Bradley when the mudslides swept through the campground about 5:45 p.m. He said Stout-Bradley was on the porch of a trailer home with her boyfriend standing nearby "when this whole wave of water and mud pulled me under, and then it hit them."

Gordon said he was up to his waist in mud, but managed to free himself after 15 minutes. When he looked around for Stout-Bradley and her boyfriend, he couldn't see them.

Robert Fleming, 45, who does maintenance at the site, said he was at a friend's trailer when he heard a rumble about 6:15 p.m. Thursday.

"It was a flash flood. It just came down," he said.

He watched helplessly as mud, tree limbs and debris shoved his 40-foot trailer about 200 yards through the camp, bumping into other trailers.

Mud, silt and debris were selective, wiping away 32 trailers on the campground's west side but sparing two rows of trailers on the east side, said San Bernardino County Fire Department paramedic Pat Gomez. Uprooted trees littered the campground. One jumble of trees stood 12 feet high, he said.

The downpour Thursday also contributed to the derailment of an empty freight train in the Cajon Pass.

Staff writers John Berry, Richard Brooks, David Danelski, Imran Ghori, Tim Grenda, Sharyn Obsatz, K. Franke Santos, Bettye Wells Miller and Mark Zaleski contributed to this report.