{"id":368959,"date":"2026-06-21T07:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T07:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/368959\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T07:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T07:23:13","slug":"man-dies-after-canoe-overturns-drowns-in-the-san-joaquin-river-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/368959\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after canoe overturns, drowns in the San Joaquin River, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A man has died after he drowned in the San Joaquin River on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officials have identified him as 20-year-old Vincent Chang of Fresno.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to authorities, around 4:30 p.m., a canoe with three people on board overturned into the river near Sycamore Island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Two of the occupants were able to swim to the shore safely but Chang did not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Multiple agencies responded to the water rescue, including the Madera County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, Fresno Fire, North Central Fire and Madera County Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Fresno Fire Water Rescue Team found Chang with help from CHP&#8217;s helicopter and retrieved him from the water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Officials provided medical aid and Chang was taken to the hospital, where he later died, according to MCSO.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A man has died after he drowned in the San Joaquin River on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[149598,149597,112,114,113,149596,77261,294],"class_list":["post-368959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-149598","tag-drowns-in-the-san-joaquin-river","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-man-dies-after-canoe-overturns","tag-officials-say","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368959","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=368959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}