{"id":352845,"date":"2026-06-09T08:39:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T08:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/352845\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T08:39:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T08:39:37","slug":"man-missing-after-being-swept-into-dangerous-california-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/352845\/","title":{"rendered":"Man missing after being swept into dangerous California river"},"content":{"rendered":"

Authorities in Kern County are searching for a man in what some have called the deadliest river in America.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, the Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office\u00a0responded to a call<\/a> for a person who was swept into the Kern River near Lake Isabella in the Sequoia National Forest. The department called upon Kern Valley Search and Rescue for help. Barbara Vargas identified the missing man as her son, Corey Vargas, on Facebook.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cPlease pray for my Corey Vargas,\u201d Barbara Vargas wrote. \u201c… Search and rescue has not been able to find him. It\u2019s been almost 24 hrs!!\u201d<\/p>\n

Corey Vargas went fishing with his son and dog when the dog fell into the water,\u00a0according to a GoFundMe<\/a> raising money for the family. When Vargas tried to save their dog, he slipped and fell in.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis has been an incredibly stressful and uncertain time,\u201d the GoFundMe says.<\/p>\n

The Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office deployed multiple boat teams, drones and helicopters to work alongside deputies in the search. As of 11:30 a.m. on Monday, the man has not been found.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe message always every year is to stay out of the river,\u201d said Sgt. Rodney Jones with the Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office. \u201cBut we do know that people are going to get in the river.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before Memorial Day weekend, the U.S. Forest Service warned visitors to wear a \u201cproperly fitted life jacket\u201d regardless of the activity they are doing near or in the river.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities in Kern County are searching for a man in what some have called the deadliest river in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,1894,1692,1228],"class_list":["post-352845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-sfgcentralca","tag-sfgnews","tag-sfgtravel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352845","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=352845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}