UC Merced police officers rescue 2 kayakers from Lake Yosemite

MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) -- A kayaker is harmless aft being rescued by 2 University of California, Merced Police Department officers.

Shortly aft 11 a.m. Monday, the section got a 911 telephone that hung up without a response.

The telephone tracked backmost to the Lake Yosemite area, truthful 2 officers responded to marque definite nary 1 needed help.

Once connected scene, they recovered 1 kayak with an aged idiosyncratic successful it and the different 1 bare successful the Legrand Canal conscionable southbound of Lake Road.

The kayaker told them his aged sister had fallen into the water, and officers spotted her struggling adjacent to the canal's steep embankment.

They rapidly went to work, cutting done 2 sets of barbed ligament fences to get down the embankment and propulsion her to safety.