contacted the U.S. Coast Guard<\/a>, which began a search for survivors near South Seacoast Drive and Encanto Avenue. The San Diego County Sheriff\u2019s Department joined in the operation, public information officers said. <\/p>\nImperial Beach Fire Chief John French told Sideo TV that four people had died. <\/p>\n
At least five people were rescued from the water and taken to a hospital, Gutierrez said. <\/p>\n
Most of those rescued are of Mexican nationality, and one of those individuals was transferred to the Department of Homeland Security, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.<\/p>\n
Buoys offshore of Imperial Beach measured rough seas of 6 feet and individual waves of up to 12 feet on Friday night, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur crews and partner agencies responded immediately, but this case demonstrates the severe risks [of] attempting to enter the United States by sea in unstable vessels,\u201d said Capt. Robert Tucker, Sector San Diego commander.<\/p>\n
The Imperial Beach Border Patrol Station monitors six linear miles of land border from the Pacific Ocean to the San Ysidro Port of Entry, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four people died after a panga boat capsized off the San Diego County coast early Saturday, and at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2640,1595,6246,34419,34417,34307,592,34416,74,34420,76,75,34422,595,34418,34421,2822,4450],"class_list":["post-55249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-a-m","tag-california-coast","tag-department","tag-encanto-avenue","tag-gerardo-gutierrez","tag-panga-boat","tag-people","tag-public-affair-officer","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county-sheriff","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-ysidro-port","tag-saturday","tag-sideo","tag-south-seacoast-drive","tag-tv","tag-u-s-coast-guard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55249","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=55249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}