{"id":424353,"date":"2026-08-05T09:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T09:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/424353\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T09:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T09:33:12","slug":"man-pulled-from-millerton-lake-after-20-minutes-underwater-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/424353\/","title":{"rendered":"Man pulled from Millerton Lake after 20 minutes underwater passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILLERTON LAKE, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A man was pulled from Millerton Lake after being underwater for 20 minutes on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The Fresno County Coroner&#8217;s Office tells us Alfonso Gopar of Madera passed away at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>State Park officials say the 28-year-old man was swimming at the lake when he became exhausted about 15 to 20 yards from shore.<\/p>\n<p>Rescuers arrived, found the Gopar, and pulled him from the water after about 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/visalia-police-investigate-body-found-in-canal-near-riggin-avenue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Visalia police investigate body found in canal near Riggin Avenue<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He was also reportedly not wearing a life jacket.<\/p>\n<p>Calfire Fresno County performed CPR before being flown to the hospital via Lifeflight helicopter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILLERTON LAKE, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A man was pulled from Millerton Lake after being underwater for 20 minutes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-424353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424353","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=424353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}