Authorities say an 85-year-old woman was found dead near her car in the Coachella Valley desert a day after she had called a friend to say she was lost.

After the Poomacha fire burned through the La Jolla Indian reservation last October, the rains came and washed out dirt roads.

The body of an 85-year-old woman was found Sunday in Indio Hills near her car after she'd called a friend Saturday to say she was lost, according to Riverside County Sherrif's deputies.