First responders patrol Kings River during busy Father's Day weekend

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- First responders are keeping a adjacent oculus connected our section waterways, particularly with each the caller drownings that we've seen.

Families had their tents and picnic acceptable up connected Reedley Beach connected Saturday afternoon. While radical were cooling disconnected by the water, it was besides a clip for families to reconnect.

"We're walking down my mom's representation lane," said Hugo Ayala who came each the mode from Seattle. "This is wherever she grew up. She raised a large family. We got a batch of large memories here."

Just up the Kings River, radical were getting into their tubes, acceptable to marque their mode down. Irving Vazquez with Goodfellow Floats says they've been putting connected this lawsuit for the past respective years.

But their biggest precedence is making definite that radical are safe.

"What we counsel floaters is to beryllium alert of their surroundings and chiefly enactment successful the mediate of the river," said Irving Vazquez with Goodefellow Floats. "If you veer disconnected to the near oregon the close you volition tally into branches

Sean Albercht is simply a regular with Goodfellow Floats, goes down the Kings River often.

He besides helps first-time floaters navigate the waterway.

"Go with idiosyncratic who's done it earlier oregon person 1 of america spell down with you," said Albercht.

"The main happening is having a bully interval and thing to bent connected to. It should beryllium for the stream and not for the pool."

With the Kings River flowing astatine precocious levels, it tin instrumentality radical respective hours to get backmost to enactment aft floating down it. First responders are stationed adjacent by to assistance respond to immoderate h2o rescue calls.

"Our archetypal program of enactment is to get a typical connected scene, assess, and commencement getting descriptions and locations," said Battalion Chief Justin Watson with the Reedley Fire Department. "Pretty overmuch find retired what we person and what we need."

The Reedley Fire Department has already seen respective h2o rescue calls. One wrong the metropolis and 3 successful the county.

"This is really an summation compared to past season," said Watson. "Last play with the stream closed our requests were down importantly owed to the clip play that stream was open. It varies twelvemonth to year. "

The Fire Department said what they've seen connected their calls is that radical aren't utilizing the close stream raft. Those rafts are popping erstwhile they get caught successful a histrion oregon branch.

But Goodfellow Float Organizers and the Reedley Fire Department punctual radical to ever deterioration a beingness overgarment and marque definite that it's decently fastened.

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