{"id":117849,"date":"2026-01-02T21:23:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T21:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/117849\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T21:23:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T21:23:25","slug":"body-of-missing-huron-man-found-in-california-aqueduct-after-weeks-long-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/117849\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of missing Huron man found in California Aqueduct after weeks-long search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HURON, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The body of <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/community-unites-to-search-for-francisco-madera-missing-since-dec-13-in-hanford-armona\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">34-year-old Francisco Madera<\/a> was found in the California Aqueduct.<\/p>\n<p>The Fresno County Sheriff&#8217;s Office recovered Madera&#8217;s body from the water, near Goldenrod and Gale Ave., on New Year&#8217;s Eve.<\/p>\n<p>Madera was last seen on December 13th in the Hanford-Armona area after heading home, but never arrived.<\/p>\n<p>His vehicle was found on December 15th, crashed into a tree near the Aqueduct at Mitchell Ave. and Hwy. 145.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s office says shoe tracks showed he may have gone into the canal.<\/p>\n<p>The department&#8217;s dive team searched the canal at that time, but he was not found.<\/p>\n<p>On Christmas Eve, family, friends, and volunteers gathered to search and share flyers throughout the community.<\/p>\n<p>Then on New Year&#8217;s Eve, somebody spotted a body floating about 5 miles south of the search area. It was determined to be Madera.<\/p>\n<p>No foul play is suspected.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>His family has set up a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/honoring-our-beloved-brother-and-son\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">GoFundMe<\/a> to help cover funeral expenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HURON, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The body of 34-year-old Francisco Madera was found in the California Aqueduct. The Fresno&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-117849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}