Global Courant
The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department suspended its search for a missing man Monday after a rescue team discovered a body at Three Sisters Falls.
The sheriff’s department did not release the name of the missing man and said in a press release that authorities were working to make a positive identification of the body.
Less than two weeks ago, a woman died at the same falls.
In the latest incident, a 27-year-old man disappeared Friday while swimming with a companion in the center pool of Three Sisters Falls.
The collection of waterfalls near the town of Julian, a challenging walk is required to reach. The Sheriff’s Department said the current was too dangerous for divers to search underwater until Monday.
Authorities across California have been urging swimmers to take extra care near rivers and lakes this spring and summer. As the snow melts from the severe winter storms, there is an increased risk of high water levels and strong currents.
“These fast-moving waters can be dangerous to swim in, even for the most experienced swimmers,” the governor’s emergency services office said in a statement. press release this month.
According to a count of the Bay Area NewsgroupAt least 18 people have drowned or gone missing from rivers and tributaries across the state since mid-April.
That includes the 27-year-old man who went missing from Three Sisters last week, as well as an Orange County woman who died there a week earlier.
On June 8, Sarah Louise Crocker of Ladera Ranch and a teenage girl who was a family friend were in the middle pool of the falls when the teen lost her footing. Crocker reached out to help, and both fell over the edge of the waterfall into the lower pool, officials said. Crocker died and the 15-year-old girl was seriously injured.
