{"id":418757,"date":"2026-07-31T00:48:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T00:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/418757\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T00:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T00:48:20","slug":"woman-found-clinging-to-underside-of-rock-in-dramatic-california-river-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/418757\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman found clinging to underside of rock in dramatic California river rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dramatic video shows first responders saving a woman who was swept away by the swift current in California&#8217;s Kern River over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A bystander alerted authorities after seeing the woman fall into the raging water just before 4 p.m. on Saturday, as first reported by KTLA sister station <a data-ylk=\"slk:KGET;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\/news\/local-news\/kcso-releases-video-of-woman-being-rescued-from-kern-river-along-hwy-178\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">KGET<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rescuers spotted her clinging to the underside of a rock while partially submerged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They threw her a life jacket and used a rope system to pull her to safety.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Kern River rescue\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/ktla_articles_362\/e186b5e1d3746e1fc96e45314ce70033.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A woman was seen clinging to the underside of a rock in the Kern River on Saturday, July 25, 2026. (KCSO)<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Kern River rescue\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/ktla_articles_362\/aab8221fa4cc7687f74dd053258ef0ce.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A woman was seen clinging to the underside of a rock in the Kern River on Saturday, July 25, 2026. (KCSO)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She was sent to a hospital for treatment, but there&#8217;s no word on her current condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials routinely warn visitors to wear life jackets and avoid underestimating the river&#8217;s strength.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Kern River is approximately 165 miles long and drains into an area of the Southern Sierra Nevada mountains northeast of Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTLA.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTLA.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dramatic video shows first responders saving a woman who was swept away by the swift current in California&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,167451,9623,9964,167452],"class_list":["post-418757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-clinging","tag-kcso","tag-kern-river","tag-raging-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418757","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=418757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}