Local crews preparing for swift water rescues as temperatures rise

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Swift h2o rescue teams are preparing for what's expected to beryllium a agelong blistery summer.

It's that clip of twelvemonth erstwhile snowmelt from the High Sierra is making its mode down rivers and lakes.

With warmer upwind connected the rise, the Fresno County Sheriff's Office says radical volition beryllium looking for ways to chill off.

"But an mean year, it doesn't look arsenic scary and truthful radical get a small implicit assured and that's erstwhile they get into trouble," explained Fresno County Sgt. Chris Tullus.

Tullus says they respond to astir 200 calls yearly, truthful it's captious for rescue teams crossed the Central Valley to enactment prepared.

"Public information is nationalist safety. It doesn't substance if you're a firefighter, medical, instrumentality enforcement. We are each moving for the aforesaid extremity and that's to marque definite radical are safe," Tullus said.

On Monday, the Fresno County Sheriff's Office held a 1 time grooming with the Madera County Sheriff's Office, California Highway Patrol, CAL FIRE and State Parks to tally done aggregate rescue techniques, similar pulling radical retired of the stream with a propulsion container oregon mid-air.

Officials accidental being prepared tin prevention lives.

Tullus says calls are already coming in.

Over the weekend, CAL FIRE rescued a begetter and girl from the San Joaquin River.

But Tullus says not each rescue effort has the aforesaid outcome.

On Thursday, a 30-year-old parent drowned successful the San Joaquin River adjacent the borderline of Merced County.

She was trying to prevention her daughter, who was yet rescued by her teenage son.

A tragic ending that authorities spot excessively often.

"The ones wherever it's a fatality and you look backmost and spell this could person been prevented with a beingness jacket. Those instrumentality with you," said Tullus.

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