{"id":462695,"date":"2026-09-13T17:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/462695\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T17:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:22:09","slug":"man-drowns-rescuing-pet-dog-at-lake-shasta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/462695\/","title":{"rendered":"Man drowns rescuing pet dog at Lake Shasta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Redding man died after jumping off a boat into Lake Shasta after a pet dog, California sheriff\u2019s officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Geordan White, 60, jumped from a moving boat into the lake to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ShastaSheriff\/posts\/pfbid0BPapkd5QcErNysVmedJVxGN4wjhNkDQHzu5uN3upAuQEKpH89qL7Y1nXWtwe5QYRl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rescue the dog<\/a>, which also had jumped off the boat, at about 9 a.m Friday, Sept. 11, the Shasta County Sheriff\u2019s Office said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>He began struggling in the water and called for help, deputies said. Someone threw a flotation device to White, who lost his grip on it and vanished under the water.<\/p>\n<p>Someone was able to rescue the dog.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s dive team and U.S. Forest Service ranger searched Lake Shasta for White after he was reported missing, deputies said.<\/p>\n<p>Divers found his body on Saturday. An autopsy has been scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>Lake Shasta is about 170 miles north of Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p> Loading\u2026<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/218174905\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Don Sweeney<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Don Sweeney has been a newspaper reporter and editor in California for more than 35 years. He is a service reporter based at The Sacramento Bee.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Redding man died after jumping off a boat into Lake Shasta after a pet dog, California sheriff\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-462695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462695","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=462695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}