Man who drowned at Skaggs Bridge Park identified, officials urge water safety

If you spot idiosyncratic struggling successful the water, officials accidental you should not get successful yourself but telephone 911 instead.

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Fresno County authorities are urging caution successful and astir the h2o amid a emergence successful drownings.

At slightest 8 radical person died successful the h2o conscionable this play present successful Central California.

"There's tons of factors, particularly connected our waterways," Sergeant Chris Tullus with the Fresno County Sheriff's Office Boating Enforcement portion said.

"There's overconfidence, there's inexperience, there's alcohol, there's not wearing due attire."

"The astir important happening we privation to preach is the h2o is dangerous."

The latest drowning happened Sunday astatine Skaggs Bridge Park adjacent Kerman.

What was a amusive day connected the h2o took a unspeakable turn, sending 2 radical to the infirmary and leaving 1 idiosyncratic dead.

The Sheriff's Office has present identified the unfortunate arsenic Sachin Kumar.

He was 20 years old, and officials accidental helium did not cognize however to aquatics and was not wearing a beingness jacket.

It was a tragic operation that present serves arsenic a sobering reminder.

"Wear a beingness jacket, and don't beryllium drinking, and marque definite you're with a buddy," Tullus said. "If you can't swim, there's nary crushed to beryllium successful the water."

Sunday's incidental astatine Skaggs Bridge Park was the 2nd drowning determination successful a substance of weeks.

It is the 4th to hap on a Central Valley river.

Officials accidental the existent you spot connected the aboveground could beryllium 2 times arsenic accelerated below, making it hard for adjacent the astir seasoned swimmers.

"I wouldn't bash it without a beingness overgarment ... I wouldn't bash it without the due information gear," Tullus said.

He has swum his full life.

If you spot idiosyncratic struggling successful the water, officials accidental you should not get successful yourself but telephone 911 instead.

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