The identity of a man who was found dead following a brush fire in July was released by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office Wednesday.

On Tuesday, July 22, firefighters responded to a half-acre brush fire on Soledad Canyon Road near Penlon Way in Canyon Country.

After the flames were extinguished, firefighters found a body that had been burned in the fire. 

On Wednesday, the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office released the identity of the man as Mark Svendsen, 63, a transient. 

During the autopsy, Fentanyl and methamphetamine were found in Svendsen’s system, according to investigators.

KHTS reached out to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Homicide Bureau for additional information, however they have not returned our call as of the publication of this article.

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