A search team recovered a teenager’s body from the Russian River after two youths were swept away a day earlier, California sheriff’s officials reported.
Two teens were carried away by the Northern California river at 4:40 p.m. Thursday, April 11, from Steelhead Beach, the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
One teen got out of the water and was taken to a hospital, but the other could not be found, sheriff’s officials said.
The two teens were swimming with friends at the time, KTVU reported.
A search for the missing boy by multiple agencies continued until 11 p.m. and resumed the next morning, officials said.
An underwater drone found his body at 10:30 a.m. Friday, April 12, sheriff’s officials said.
The body of a 15-year-old boy was recovered, The Press Democrat reported.
“You’ve got a lot of water in the river right now so the water is moving quickly, it’s swift, there’s a lot of debris from the winter,” Rob Dillon, public information officer with the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office, told KTVU. Hypothermia also is a threat.
The Russian River runs through Mendocino and Sonoma counties. Steelhead Beach is near Forestville, which is about a 70-mile drive northwest from San Francisco.
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