ACTON : Father Finds Body of Son Swept Away in Flood
The father of a missing 22-year-old Diamond Bar man made the discovery he had been dreading Wednesday morning when he and a friend found the body of his son lodged beneath a dead tree spanning the Santa Clara River.
Oscar Rodriguez had been swept away by the rain-swelled river Monday, when waters were more than four feet above normal.
“They just called me to help,” the father, also named Oscar, said in Spanish as he shivered in a wet sweat shirt by the riverbank Wednesday. “And now . . . I can’t believe it.”
Twenty Los Angeles sheriff’s deputies had combed 10 miles of riverbanks in Acton--a rustic community about 16 miles southwest of Palmdale--by air and on foot. They called off the search Tuesday afternoon and had planned to resume Wednesday when water levels subsided.
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