Accident Database

Report ID#67888

1998-06-18
accident date
Unknown
victim
0
victim age
Stanislaus, M. Fk.
river
Above New Melones Reservior
section
Above New Melones Reservior
location
n/a
gage
High
water level
N/A
river difficulty
Flush Drowning
cause code(s)
n/a
injury type(s)
n/a
factors
Private
trip type
Raft
boat type
status?
status

Description

Rivers demand caution By Jeff Jardine Bee staff writer Friday, June 19, 1998) Thursday afternoon, the Tuolumne and Calaveras county search and rescue teams were looking for a man who fell out of a raft that capsized on the Middle Fork of the Stanislaus above New Melones Reservoir. Another man and two boys were rescued by a helicopter from a rock island in the middle of the stream. One boy swam to the bank.