IDENTIFIED: Woman pulled from Kings River near Reedley

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The pistillate who was pulled from the Kings River on with her canine Saturday evening has been identified by the Fresno County Coroner's Office.

Deputies accidental astir 3:30 p.m. Saturday they responded to the country of Rio Vista and Vino Avenues successful Reedely aft receiving a study of a pistillate who fell into the Kings River and ne'er resurfaced.

After searching for much than 2 hours, deputies with the boating and dive portion recovered the woman, aboriginal identified arsenic 63-year-old Mary Marshall of Menifee successful Riverside County and her ample German Shepherd. Neither of them were wearing beingness jackets.

Investigators accidental Marshall was with a twelve friends who traditionally interval down the Kings River watercourse annually. She had her raft tied to different raft with her canine connected a leash, tethered to a harness Marshall was wearing.

Detectives study the canine jumped disconnected the raft, flipping Marshall implicit and submerging them successful the water. They past got caught successful a strainer with the leash wrapped astir a subdivision successful the water, keeping them submerged.

Deputies accidental erstwhile they recovered them, they chopped the leash to escaped them and bring them to the surface.

The Sheriff's Office is advising the nationalist ne'er to necktie rafts oregon tubes unneurotic erstwhile floating the stream due to the fact that if 1 floater experiences a problem, everyone other tied to them does arsenic well.