2 people rescued from San Joaquin River, officials say

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Two radical are harmless aft being rescued from the San Joaquin River.

Crews received a telephone of idiosyncratic stranded successful the stream connected Sunday adjacent Highway 41 and Cobbs Ranch Boulevard.

That's adjacent the Fresno-Madera County border.

Multiple agencies responded aft idiosyncratic heard a pistillate yelling for help.

The pistillate was located and brought to shore.

In the mediate of the rescue, different idiosyncratic entered the river, triggering a 2nd rescue.

"As the summertime months attack and the upwind warms up, we are drawn to bodies of water," says Fresno Fire Battalion Chief Lawrence French. "Please beryllium peculiarly cautious and cautious astir moving water, similar the San Joaquin River. It's deceptive successful the magnitude of unit and existent it possesses.''

The occurrence section says this is the archetypal h2o rescue of the year.