Crews recovered the body of a drowning victim Friday afternoon from the American River, the Sacramento Fire Department said.<\/p>\n
The identity of the person, a male of an undetermined age, is unknown. The body has been turned over to the Sacramento County Coroner’s Office.<\/p>\n
The body was discovered around 3 p.m. by a person paddle boating down the river near the Howe Avenue boat ramp.<\/p>\n
“I saw a couple of feet so I got back to it to double check, and I see two hands floating up and mossy,” Mel Mendez said. “There was another another family of paddle boaters, and I said, ‘Can you confirm this? I think I found a body.'”<\/p>\n
DART searched upstream from the Howe Avenue Bridge before the body was recovered, fire department spokesperson Chris Harvey said.<\/p>\n
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