Provo Police Department Report
Case number: 2011004237

SUBJECT was standing in the river preparing to board an air mattress when it shifted and SUBJECT was pushed into the river where he could not make it back to land.  Witnesses ran for help and called 911 from a cell phone stated that their friend fell into the river and is floating down stream and have lost sight of him.  Provo Dispatch received the 911 call and dispatched officers and fire personnel to the scene.  

Officers and fire personnel arrived at the scene and located SUBJECT floating in the river.  OFFICER1 entered the river and swam out to SUBJECT and tried to swim SUBJECT to the river bank.  OFFICERS and FIRE FIGHTER waded out into the river deployed a rescue line to officer1 and pulled him to land.  OFFICER2 was transported to Utah Valley Hospital for an asthma attack and OFFICER3 had injured his back.

I was contacted by OFFICER4 and notified of the drowning and gave me DETECTIVE number to obtain a copy of the report.

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