Portion of Santa Cruz Wharf collapses amid high surf with 2 people rescued
A part of the Santa Cruz Wharf collapsed Monday afternoon during a high-surf warning, with authorities confirming two people had to be pulled from the water.
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A part of the Santa Cruz Wharf collapsed Monday afternoon during a high-surf warning, with authorities confirming two people had to be pulled from the water.
Antioch police on Wednesday said one of their dispatchers helped the U.S. Coast Guard save the life of a man whose boat sank on Christmas Eve.
U.S. Coast Guard crews were kept busy over the weekend, rescuing 16 people in five separate emergencies in the Bay Area and along the Monterey coast.
The body of a teen who went missing in the American River in Rancho Cordova on Tuesday was located on Wednesday.
A couple of people had to be rescued Monday morning after they drove onto a flooded road near Rancho Murieta and got stuck.
A kayaker was pulled from the Sacramento River and rushed to the hospital in critical condition after his kayak capsized north of Discovery Park Thursday morning.
A Carnival cruise ship rescued two men after their boat sank in the Gulf of Mexico.
A person was hospitalized in critical condition after being pulled from the American River in Rancho Cordova on Sunday.
A woman regained consciousness after she nearly drowned while attempting to save her children from a drifting raft in the Feather River Saturday evening.
Cameras, sonar and an underwater rover. The Sacramento County Sheriff's office is leveraging technology during a particularly dangerous spring on the capital region waterways.
The coroner's office has now identified the teen who drowned after going missing in the Sacramento River during a family reunion on Sunday.
Crews on Sunday rescued several people from the American River in Carmichael.
It is Memorial Day Weekend, but fewer people are flocking to the river this year because of the dangerous water conditions.
Another body was recovered from a Sacramento-area river. Though a cause of death has not yet been revealed, this comes as officials continue warning civilians to stay out of the dangerous and fast-moving local waterways ahead of Memorial Day Weekend.
This year, they have had 20 water rescues already — the total number they had last year altogether — and even though many were rescue missions for the unhoused during flooding, they are expecting higher call volumes.
