In today’s Live Incident blog: a man is found tangled in ropes and hanging from the 17th floor of a downtown high-rise building. A special technical rope rescue ensued. Find that story and more as they develop throughout the day in the SacMav Live Action News Blog.

Live Incident Blog for Monday, April 1, 2013

DART diver prepares to go down and execute a training exercise in the flowing, murky, Sacramento River

Sacramento, CA | As the heat turns up, so does the ratio on drowning potentials on Sacramento’s waterways.

Tuesday evening, DART Team members conducted a training exercise in the Sacramento River at the Broderick Boat Ramp in West Sacramento. The team trained on manual dexterity by diving down and working with commonly found entanglements under water. Read more »

The body of Shabnam Ahmadyar was recovered Monday evening near the shore.

Elk Grove, CA | An, at risk, 15 year old girl is missing in the Elk Grove area. Search teams have been deployed. Inclement weather and medical conditions are major concerns.

A 15 year old girl, with medical issues, is missing in the Elk Grove area. She has been missing since Friday evening. Cosumnes Fire, Elk Grove PD and CERT have deployed search teams to the Hood area conducting a house to house search for the girl. Read more »

Driver survives major collision with Sacramento lightrail commuter train in downtown Sacramento

Sacramento, CA | A man had to be extricated from his vehicle in Downtown Sacramento Thursday after colliding with a lightrail commuter train.

The intersection at 10th Street and O Street in Downtown Sacramento was a buzz as usual around lunchtime Thursday when a Sacramento Rapid Transit Lightrail train collided with two vehicles at the intersection. Read more »

A West Sacramento Fire Boat moves in to extract a drunk, combative woman. (click this image to see more photos from this incident)

West Sacramento | When a drunk woman jumps off a dock in the middle of the night into the dark and flowing Sacramento River, rescuers have to take risks to get her out.

Late Thursday night, while a West Sacramento Police Officer was on an unrelated call at the Broderick Boat Ramp, a drunk woman jumped off the dock into the dark and flowing river.  Read more »

Sac Metro Fire personnel rescue and treat three fire victims (click this image to see more photos from this incident)

Rosemont, Sacramento, CA | Lack of working smoke detectors nearly cost family members their lives in an apartment kitchen fire early Thursday morning.

A kitchen fire breaks out in an apartment with no working smoke detectors. A Marine (just home from Afghanistan), kicks the door in and he and friends attempt rescues. Two occupants (a child and adult) were found unconscious and another child was attempting to break out the back bedroom window to escape. Read more »

Rescuers head out to find body in the Cosumnes River Preserve area. (click this image to see more photos)

Sacramento, CA | Rescue boats head out into the darkness in the Cosumnes River Preserve to recover a body.

Early Sunday evening, law enforcement and rescuers were called to the Cosumnes River Preserve by canoers who discovered a body up in the trees approximately a mile up river from the visitors center. Read more »