More than 2,500 people, including 500 children and adults at a Christian campground, stranded by freak flash floods and mud slides in California 

• Thousands stranded after rainfall in southern California sparks mudslides
• Those cut off include 500 children and adults at a church camping ground
• One person has died after car was swept into rain-swollen mountain creek 
• Roads in San Bernardino mountains blocked by up to eight foot of rock

By JULIAN ROBINSON

PUBLISHED: 06:41 GMT, 4 August 2014 | UPDATED: 11:46 GMT, 4 August 2014

More than 2,500 people have been left stranded during flash floods and mudslides in California – including 500 children and adults at a Christian campsite.

Around 1,500 residents of Oak Glen and another 1,000 residents at Forest Falls in the San Bernardino Mountains have been cut off amid torrential rainfall in southern California.

Hundreds of youngsters and adults are unable to get out of a mountain campground in Forest Falls after roads in the area were covered with mud, rock and debris. 

Fierce storms have already claimed the life of one person after a car was swept into a rain-swollen creek in Mount Baldy and overturned, San Bernardino County Fire spokesman Chris Prater said. 

Bulldozers have already been used to try and reach the campground in a bid to rescue the Forest Fall campers, who arrived on Sunday morning. 

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