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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The Fresno County Sheriff's Office is encouraging assemblage members to debar swimming successful section rivers.
It comes aft back-to-back incidents connected the Kings River caused 2 men to suffer their lives.
According to Tony Botti with the Fresno County Sheriff's Office, they received a telephone astir 2 men struggling to enactment supra h2o Sunday afternoon. Through their investigation, detectives learned the 2 had been retired having amusive astatine Winton Park.
"Maybe they were wrestling with 1 another," Botti said. "Lost a consciousness of wherever they were, started to get further retired into the water. Next happening you know, the existent swept them away."
When they arrived, deputies recovered 1 of the men connected an land downstream portion different was nearby, submerged successful the water. Officials accidental they were not wearing beingness jackets and did not cognize however to swim.
"It enactment them successful a precise unsafe predicament, and that's what enactment them downstream and yet outgo 1 of the men their lives," Botti said.
The antheral who died was identified arsenic 30-year-old Everado Saucedo. The different antheral connected the land received aesculapian attraction and is expected to beryllium okay.
Deputies were besides sent to the Kings River connected Friday erstwhile a antheral got pulled underneath the h2o adjacent Pine Flat Dam.
Officials accidental 65-year-old Russell Mayfield was successful a kayak erstwhile it fell into the stream and got caught successful the turning water. The sheriff's bureau announced he passed distant connected Saturday.
Mayfield did person connected a beingness jacket, but Botti says it wasn't decently enactment on.
"Mr. Mayfield was doing the close happening successful that helium had his beingness overgarment on, but helium didn't person it zipped up. That's wherefore it's important to ever deterioration it the mode it's intended," Botti said.
Botti says being harmless includes making definite the beingness overgarment is Coast Guard-approved, fits properly, and is buckled oregon zipped each the way.
"You don't bargain a brace of shoes that are 3 sizes excessively big. It's the aforesaid happening with a beingness jacket. Make definite it fits perfectly. Use it the mode it's intended due to the fact that that is yet what is going to prevention your life," helium said. "This is simply a terribly bittersweet clip for some these families to suffer radical implicit this past weekend. We conscionable anticipation that radical recognize that this worldly is wholly preventable."
Right now, the sheriff's bureau is encouraging radical to debar going to section rivers.
"What radical request to recognize is that the somesthesia of the h2o has not caught up with the somesthesia of the sun. We mightiness beryllium successful the eighties, but the h2o is inactive successful the debased fifties. You mates that acold somesthesia with a beardown current, and it's a deadly situation. So, we are encouraging everyone to enactment retired of the rivers close now, hold for the conditions to calm down, and the temperatures of that h2o to lukewarm up," Botti said.
He besides reminds assemblage members that deputies are not connected patrol successful the lakes and rivers until Memorial Day weekend.
"It's going to instrumentality america that overmuch longer to get to you if you effort and spell retired into a waterway close now. So, recognize that delayed effect clip and, much importantly, whether we tin get to you rapidly oregon not. It lone takes a divided 2nd for you to get sucked nether and for you to perchance suffer your life," Bott said.
