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KINGS COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Golfers and deputies rescued 4 radical trapped successful the Kings River aft golfers heard their screams from a play course, the Kings County Sheriff's Office said.
On Friday astatine astir 6 p.m., deputies received an exigency telephone for subjects trapped adjacent a weir successful the Kings River down the Kings County Club.
According to deputies, golfers connected the people heard frantic screams for assistance coming from the Kings River. They went to analyse and were told 4 subjects floating down the stream went implicit the weir and 3 were inactive struck successful the current.
Sheriff's officials accidental 1 of the subjects had their limb wrapped astir a enactment and was caught successful the current. One of the golfers jumped onto the weir and was capable to hook the enactment with his play nine arsenic different golfer chopped the enactment and freed the taxable from the current.
The golfers past called 911 and unit of the Kings County Sheriff's Office, Kings County Fire Department, and members of the sheriff's Water Rescue Unit responded to the scene.
Upon arrival, archetypal responders confirmed 4 radical had gone implicit the weir. Deputies accidental 1 idiosyncratic was capable to get retired of the stream with the assistance of the golfers, 1 was inactive connected their interior conduit and 2 were stuck connected the steep slope incapable to get out.
Deputies and occurrence unit worked unneurotic to propulsion the 2 subjects retired of the h2o and transferred them implicit to the awaiting ambulance.
Sheriff's officials accidental their airplane, Air-1, and the Fresno County Sheriff's Office helicopter, EAGLE ONE, responded and coordinated with them to get the idiosyncratic connected the interior conduit to safety.
All of them were yet transported to the infirmary for treatment.
