EAST COUNTY — A vehicle with a body inside was found Thursday morning at Inspiration Point, the Sheriff’s Department said. The vehicle appeared to be similar to one belonging to a missing Julian woman, said sheriff’s Lt. Jim Nolan. On Monday, the Sheriff’s Department issued a call for the public’s help in locating the woman, Stephanie Brehm, 44, after she left her home about 8 a.m. in her Chevrolet truck. She was reported to be despondent. The vehicle was found about 8 a.m. Thursday, Nolan said. Inspiration Point is about three miles south of Julian. During a recovery operation several hours later, a Sheriff’s Department volunteer slipped and fainted, but was not injured, the lieutenant said. The Sheriff’s Department said a positive identification on the body would come from the county Medical Examiner’s Office.

CAMP PENDLETON — A 27-year-old sailor was struck by a car and killed while riding a bicycle on Camp Pendleton Tuesday night, the Medical Examiner’s Office said. The man, whose name was not released, was riding on Vandegrift Boulevard about 11:30 p.m. when he was struck by a Honda Odyessy. He died at a hospital a few hours later. He was an active member of the U.S. Navy stationed at Camp Pendleton.

CHULA VISTA — Five people were hurt, including two with major injuries, during a crash Tuesday night that has shut down the intersection of East H Street and Interstate 805, Chula Vista police said. The three-vehicle crash occurred about 7:30 p.m. and sent the five unidentified people to a hospital. The two with the most serious injuries were flown by helicopter, police said. The intersection of East H Street and I-805 was closed for several hours as officers investigated the circumstances that led to the crash, police said.

EL CAJON — A 38-year-old El Cajon man riding a motorcycle died from injuries he suffered when he collided with a Toyota Camry Sunday night, the Medical Examiner’s Office said. Nathaniel Joseph Camacho was heading east on Greenfield Drive near First Street about 8:50 p.m. on a 2001 Honda CBR motorcycle when he collided with the driver’s side of the Camry as it made a U-turn on Greenfield Drive, the Medical Examiner’s Office said. He was taken to Sharp Memorial Hospital, where he died about three hours later. No other injuries were reported. The California Highway Patrol is investigating the crash.

A toddler drowned in his family’s pool in Descanso Friday afternoon, the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office said. The mother of Noah Hale, 3, found her son face down and unresponsive in the family’s backyard pool. Despite being taken by helicopter to Rady’s Children’s Hospital, the boy couldn’t be revived and died soon after arriving about 7 p.m.

Excessive speed was the probable cause of a car crash that killed an Escondido teenager Monday, police have determined. Michael Hoffman, 18, died after he lost control of his 1995 Pontiac Firebird and it slid into a wooden power pole at North Avenue and Broadway, near his home, about 5:50 p.m. Hoffman was wearing a seat belt, Escondido police Lt. Craig Carter said Wednesday. The family said a funeral is set for 2 p.m. Tuesday, ?at Emmanuel Faith Community Church, on 17th Avenue in Escondido. His mother, Wendy Hoffman, said Wednesday that her son was “happy all the time. A great kid. Everybody liked him.” Dale Stewart, the family spokesman, said the teen had chosen to be an organ donor. His corneas and skin will be donated to burn victims. Hoffman, who was set to graduate from Escondido High School next week, had been accepted to the emergency medical technician program at Palomar College and was planning to pursue firefighting, Stewart said. His father, Bill Hoffman, retired from the Oceanside Fire Department in December, after serving there for 30 years. The teen’s grandfather also had been a firefighter with the Buffalo, N.Y., Fire Department. Besides his parents, Hoffman is survived by his sisters, Shannen, 14, and Courtney, 9; and grandparents, Nancy and John O’Neil of Escondido. The family request donations to the Burn Institute of San Diego, burninstitute.org.

CAMP PENDLETON — A 62-year-old Murrieta man was killed about 5:00 p.m. Tuesday when he lost control of his car while driving southbound on Interstate 5 near San Onofre State Beach and rolled down an embankment, the county Medical Examiner’s Office said. The man, whose name was withheld pending notification of next of kin, was the lone occupant in a Honda sedan that crashed just north of a truck weighing station. He was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Medical Examiner’s Office.

EAST COUNTY — Eleven children riding on a school bus were injured Tuesday morning when the bus crashed into a light pole at the Golden Acorn Casino on the Campo reservation, authorities said. Ten of the children were taken to hospitals with complaints of minor injuries and one reportedly had moderate injuries. The students, who are fifth graders from Sunrise Elementary School in Yuma, Ariz., were transported by ambulance to Grossmont and Alvarado hospitals. The students were on their way to a field trip at Balboa Park. “They stopped here to walk and stretch their legs,” said casino spokesman David Baggerly. The accident was reported at 8:12 a.m. in the main parking lot of the casino, the California Highway Patrol said. Authorities had previously said that the bus collided with a private vehicle.

SAN DIEGO — A fire sparked by men trying to cut an aluminum propane tank for scrap metal spread to a two-story building Monday,causing $700,000 in damage and leaving two people injured. The fire was reported about 11:50 a.m. on Imperial Avenue near 28th Street in Logan Heights. The building had been converted into four apartment units, said San Diego Fire-Rescue Department spokesman Maurice Luque. Luque said the propane tank was empty but was pressurized, and sparks from the saw the two men were using to cut into it ignited the fumes still inside the tank. “That caused a flash explosion that burned the car that was parked in the back,” Luque said. The fire damaged a second car and then spread to the building. The two men ran up a back staircase to the second floor and “the fire followed them up the stairs,” Luque said. One of the men, a 60-year-old resident, jumped from the roof of the building. He wasn’t injured by the fall but suffered smoke inhalation and was taken to a hospital for treatment. A 52-year-old woman who was in an upstairs unit went through a window to the roof of the building, suffering minor injuries to her feet, Luque said. The fire caused $600,00 in damage to the structure and $100,000 to its contents. It took firefighters about 25 minutes to put the fire out because there were many “nooks and crannies and odd spaces” in the building when it was converted into apartments, Luque said.

Interstate 8 near Morena Boulevard were finding major delays Friday morning after an accident left three lanes blocked. The minor injury crash involved three vehicles and occurred about 7:45 a.m. The California Highway Patrol issued a traffic alert.