Fresno County Sheriff's Office encourages safety on the water

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- The h2o tin beryllium a large mode to bushed the heat, but it besides poses life-threatening danger.

The Fresno County Sheriff's Office is urging radical to enactment harmless astatine rivers and lakes.

On Tuesday, 4 men were saved from the h2o successful the Kings River adjacent Sanger.

On June 22, 5 women floating with interior tubes had to beryllium rescued from the Kings River erstwhile a histrion successful the h2o popped each but 1 of the tubes.

"In that definite case, they were each tied together. So that's thing we typically don't promote is bash not necktie yourself to different floaties due to the fact that successful a concern wherever 1 becomes trapped, you each go trapped," said Deputy Steven Kirkpatrick of the Fresno County Sheriff's Boating Enforcement Unit.

Kirkpatrick besides encourages everyone successful the h2o to person a beingness overgarment approved by the U.S. Coast Guard.

With truthful galore radical heading to rivers this Fourth of July holiday, deputies privation you to beryllium prepared earlier you dive in.

"Develop a interval plan, fto friends and household cognize wherever you are starting and wherever you are ending, and astir what time, that mode if and erstwhile we person a missing idiosyncratic telephone during that floating event, we benignant of person an thought of what we tin expect," said Kirkpatrick.

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