An 11-year-old boy is dead after a watercraft accident at the Gunnison Bend Reservoir in Millard County. Millard County EMT’s and Deputies responded to the scene Aug. 5, where the boy had been pulled under the water by a rope that was caught in the motor of the watercraft. According […]
(Undated) — Officials are reporting weekend deaths at two Utah reservoirs. A man reportedly jumped from a cliff at Weber County’s Causey Reservoir on Saturday afternoon and failed to resurface. His body was found by a dive team just after 9 p.m. Saturday. Another man was reported missing at Yuba […]
(Cedar City, UT) — A southern Utah man is dead after drowning at Quail Creek State Park. Cedar City’s Pedro Castillo was paddle boarding with his family on Friday when strong winds knocked him, his wife, and his daughter from their boards. Utah park officials say a boat was able […]
(Provo, UT) — The Utah County Sheriff’s Office is urging people to use caution near rivers and bodies of water especially during heavy runoff periods. Deputies say two separate drowning incidents this past weekend involved victims near rivers. On Saturday, a 12-year-old boy fell into the Provo River. Search and […]
Around 6:45 p.m. on July 28, authorities in Beaver County responded to the spillway at the Minersville Reservoir where a man had entered the water to cool off and was unable to keep afloat due to the high water current. The 29-year-old from Nevada went under and never resurfaced. Officials […]
One person is dead after a drowning at Palisade State Park East of Sterling. According to Utah State Park officials two young men were swimming around 5:00 p.m. Jun. 3 when they started to struggle due to heavy winds causing waves on the water and water temperatures in the 40s. […]
Late in the evening of Jan. 28, Millard County EMS and deputies were called to an unresponsive individual at the Meadows Hot Pots. In a press release from the Millard County Sheriff’s Office, it was reported that the individual had been underwater for a number of minutes, and life-saving efforts […]
(Cedar City, UT) — Police say they’ve recovered the body of a teenage boy who drowned at Newcastle Reservoir near Cedar City over the weekend. The Iron County Sheriff’s Office says crews recovered the 14-year-old’s body early yesterday morning. Police say the boy was kayaking with his 17-year-old brother when […]
A Utah family is dealing with hardship after their 10-year-old boy drowned. The boy, Brigg Leavitt, and his father fell through the ice into Gunnison Bend Reservoir Monday Dec. 20. Brigg was transported by helicopter to Primary Children’s hospital where he passed away later that day. According to a Facebook […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Officials say an Arizona man drowned at Lake Powell recently when winds prevented him from swimming back to his boat. The 34-year-old Subrahmaniyan Mathimohan died May 22. He was from Phoenix. He drowned after he slid off the rental house boat’s slide without a life […]
