Teen believed to have drowned in the Kaweah River identified by family

TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- A heartbroken household shares these pictures of 17-year-old Bree Scott.

An grant rotation pupil who conscionable graduated from Tulare Western High School, wherever she was a Cheer Captain, ASB President and had precocious won a Mustang of the Year award.

She had been accepted to CSU Fullerton successful hopes of becoming a teacher.

But arsenic of Wednesday afternoon, Bree is missing, mislaid successful the rushing waters of Kaweah River.

Her household shares that she was with a friend, who said they were sitting connected a stone erstwhile they fell in.

Bree ne'er managed to get out.

"We are going to enactment tirelessly until we retrieve this small girl. There is simply a batch we tin do, but determination is simply a batch we are incapable to bash due to the fact that we are not going to commercialized the beingness of 1 of our rescuers for a deceased person," says Kevin Kemmerling, a Lt. Tulare County Sheriff's Office.

Tulare County Sheriff's Search and Rescue Crew and different agencies person been searching the country astatine the entranceway of the Sequoia National Park since they got the telephone Tuesday evening astir five.

The crews person been battling acold and unsafe waters rushing downstream astatine 1,500 cubic feet per second.

Investigators are assured Bree's assemblage is nary longer successful the country wherever she fell; present they're searching downriver.

Within 100 yards of wherever she went successful was a whirlpool.

"If a idiosyncratic gets swept into a debased caput dam a batch of times they volition proceed to rhythm successful that h2o and find it precise hard to get retired of it. And that is the complexity with this peculiar location," explains Matthew Smith.

Bree's household was excessively devastated to talk with us.

But they accidental she was a loving and comic person.

A heartbroken household has identified the 17-year-old miss believed to person drowned successful the Kaweah River Tuesday.

Family besides shares that Bree was terrified of the water.

She mislaid her dada successful a drowning incidental successful 2008 erstwhile she was conscionable 14 months old.

Now, her household is successful disbelief that the unsafe waters person brought truthful overmuch symptom to them erstwhile again.

"This is perfectly tragic and heartbreaking for each of us. And that's wherefore we tin conscionable ne'er proceed to halt getting the connection retired that these rivers are truly unsafe and this was astir apt a gaffe and autumn mishap wherever she had nary intentions of going swimming," explains Lt. Kemmerling.

"It was conscionable senseless, but it was nobody's fault. It was conscionable an accident," helium continues.

The Tulare County Sheriff's Office says determination person been 3 drownings this year, and a full of 4 past year.

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