Overview
- Firefighters responded just before noon near Warner Avenue and Harbor Boulevard during New Year’s Day rainfall after a 911 report of a person in the water.
- Roughly 60 personnel from the Orange County, Fountain Valley and Costa Mesa fire departments took part in the operation.
- Rescuers said the person was carried about two miles in moving water before being hoisted from the river near Ellis Avenue.
- The deceased was transferred to the Orange County Sheriff's Department, and officials have not determined a cause of death.
- Local outlets reported the victim as a woman, and a GoFundMe identified her as Alejandra Torres, a mother of two, though law enforcement has not confirmed the identity.