Charred human remains found in cabin after Christopher Dorner's last stand Much of the climax to the hunt for Christopher Dorner unfolded live on television. Photograph: Uncredited/AP Charred human remains have been found in the burnt-out mountain cabin outside Los Angeles where fugitive former police officer Christopher Dorner made his bloody final stand. A spokeswoman for San Bernardino county sheriff, Jodi Miller, said the remains were found late on Tuesday after a shootout in which one sheriff's deputy was killed and another injured. Authorities believe Dorner had barricaded himself inside the cabin which later caught fire in a dramatic climax to the biggest US police manhunt in living memory. Christopher Dorner died when this log cabin burned down. Dorner, 33, a former LA police officer suspected of murdering three people in his vendetta against California's law enforcers and their families, is thought to have taken refuge inside the unoccupied rental cabin after a shootout and chase by vehicle and foot. The smouldering wreckage was too hot to immediately enter after the fire. "People on the scene are as confident as they can be without seeing the body that it is Dorner inside," the LA police chief, Charlie Beck, said. The San Bernardino county sheriff's department later said analysts would try to identify the remains. "We have reason to believe that it is him," said another spokeswoman for the department, Cynthia Bachman, adding that she did not know how the fire started. A fire truck passes through a police road block on Highway 38 into the Big Bear area after a shoot-out with suspected fugitive Christopher Dorner. Photograph: Michael Nelson/EPA The cabin was reportedly close to the police command post that co-ordinated a massive but fruitless search in the area after Dorner abandoned his pickup truck there last Thursday, an embarrassing revelation if confirmed. The former navy reservist tied up the housekeepers and stole their car, but crashed it. A CCTV image of Christopher Dorner on the second day of a manhunt for a disgruntled ex-police officer. Photograph: Handout/AFP/Getty Images In the ensuing battle, two deputies were shot. Both were taken to Loma Linda University medical centre. The other had surgery and was expected to survive. The finale was likely to boost Dorner's status among a small but vocal online community as a heroic outlaw. These people have cheered Dorner's homicidal spree as comeuppance for an allegedly racist and violent police force. Dorner held a grudge because the force sacked him in 2008 saying he had falsely accused a colleague of kicking a homeless man. His revenge allegedly began on 3 February with the murder of Monica Quan, 28, the daughter of a retired police captain, and her fiance, Keith Lawrence, 27. After Dorner vanished authorities announced a $1m (£640,000) reward for his capture, California's largest in living memory. Beck called the vendetta a campaign of domestic terrorism.