News:  A Meridian woman has lost her life after trying to save another in a rafting accident on the Payette River.  Chief Deputy with the Boise County Sheriff's Office says 44-year-old Victim was with three other adults and two children Sunday afternoon when a woman fell out of their boat.  Victim jumped into the river to try to save her.  Victim's boyfriend then jumped in also to try to save both women.  The man and woman that originally fell into the water were able to get safely back in the boat, but the group lost sight of Victim.  The group had launched at the Danskin boat ramp and had just hit rapids seven miles northeast of Crouch.  Deputy says Boise County Deputies and water rescue crews were called about 4:30 p.m. to the area on the Banks Lowman highway.  Garden Valley Fire and Swift Water Rescue began to search for Victim about an hour later.  Deputy says shortly after that Boise County deputies got word that some citizens found a woman, pulled her from the river, and attempted CPR.  The Boise County Coroner pronounced her dead at the scene near the Alder Creek Bridge, about five miles downstream from where she had fallen out of the boat. One of the children in the raft was Victim's six-year-old son.
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