July 4, 2022 Updated: July 4, 2022 9:31 am
Rio Vista Fire Department Boat 55 responded to a report of three people, 3 adults and 1 child, in the water near the Three Mile Slough Bridge in the Sacramento Delta.
Rio Vista Fire Department
Three men are missing and presumed dead after trying to rescue an 8-year-old boy in the Sacramento Delta Sunday afternoon, according to multiple media reports.
The men were part of a group fishing near the Three Mile Slough Bridge near Rio Vista on the afternoon of July 3. When the men saw a boy struggling in the water, five of them jumped in to try to save him. After only two made it back to shore, the Rio Vista Fire Department responded to “a report of three adults and a child in the water near the Three Mile Slough Bridge.”
The child was successfully rescued, but the three men are missing. The RVFD updated its report to say the incident “has progressed to recovery.”
Three men are believed to have drowned after rescuing an 8-year-old child from the Sacramento Delta. https://t.co/CWUilLBpWG
— KTVU (@KTVU) July 4, 2022
One of the men who made it back to shore, Juan Cabrera, told KCRA3 he helped pull the child safely to shore. “It happened so fast, three people, my friends … and we used to come here all the time,” Cabrera said.
Family members identified the three who remain missing as Edwin Rivas, Edwin Perez and Danilo Solorzano.
As vacationers flock to recreation areas in Northern California, a number of drownings have been reported in recent weeks. On Sunday, a San Pablo man died trying to save his son at Lake Berryessa, the second drowning in a week at the popular Napa County location. On June 11, a Bay Area man drowned while tubing in Lake Tahoe.
David Curran is the homepage editor at SFGate.com.
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