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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Life jackets volition beryllium distributed astatine respective locations wrong Fresno County connected Saturday by officials and section volunteers, the Fresno County Sheriff's Office announced connected Friday.
On Saturday, July 13, astatine 10 a.m., deputies accidental astir 100 beingness jackets volition beryllium distributed escaped of complaint astatine the pursuing locations:
- Skaggs Bridge Park
- Lost Lake Park
- Avocado Lake
- Laton-Kingston Park.
These jackets volition beryllium distributed by members of the Fresno County Sheriff's Office, North Central Fire Protection District, and section volunteers. Deputies accidental the precedence is to springiness these to visitors who bash not already ain a beingness jacket, and it volition beryllium done connected a first-come, first-served basis.
This inaugural comes aft 3 young radical drowned successful June, with 2 successful the San Joaquin River and 1 successful Shaver Lake. Sheriff's officials accidental each the victims shared thing successful common: they did not cognize however to aquatics and were not wearing beingness jackets oregon had it decently secured.
Deputies accidental they were capable to get these beingness jackets successful conscionable the past 2 weeks acknowledgment to the pursuing businesses and people:
- Century 21 Select Real Estate Fresno/Madera Officer, that donated.
- Kyries Schaeffer, a Kingsburg nonmigratory and donation organizer.
- Valerie Dearcanangelis, a Fresno nonmigratory and donor.
- Walmart successful Dinuba, that donated.
- Big 5 Sporting Goods astatine Shaw and Marks successful Fresno, who helped maximize the $400 successful donations the sheriff's bureau received. They besides accidental the store unit helped them to get arsenic galore jackets arsenic that "money would buy."
Sheriff's officials accidental their extremity with this lawsuit is to besides get swimmers successful the wont of wearing beingness jackets each clip they get into a water oregon river, conscionable arsenic the regular process drivers spell done erstwhile putting connected a seatbelt each clip they drive.
