Overview
- Firefighters were called around noon on New Year’s Day to the river near Warner Avenue and Harbor Boulevard in Costa Mesa, deploying more than 60 personnel.
- OCFA swift-water teams located the victim about two miles downstream near Ellis Avenue in Fountain Valley, where she was pronounced dead at the scene.
- The body was hoisted from the channel and transferred to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department as the investigation continues into cause and manner of death.
- Relatives identified the woman to media as Alejandra Ramirez Torres, 39, a Tustin mother of two girls, though officials have not released a formal identification.
- A fundraising page reported by local outlets seeks help for funeral costs and support for her daughters, who relatives say were still recovering from a bus crash last month.