On 6/15/2012 at about 5:32 p.m. the Kittitas County Sheriff's Office responded to a water rescue incident in the Yakima River near Ellensburg in the area of Irene Rinehart Park. 

A canoe with two adult males on board capsized above a diversion dam putting both occupants into the water.  Both were washed over the dam and through the hydraulic below it.  One occupant was able to make it to shore while the other male (the operator in the stern of the canoe) was able to grab a tree limb in the water and was then partially pinned between two logs.  He was eventually rescued by Kittitas County sheriff's deputies.  Both were transported to and admitted to the hospital suffering from hypothermia.  The canoe and paddles were recovered with only a minor dent in the canoe estimated at $100.00 in damages.
Ellensburg                    