A young mother drowned Sunday after being swept away at a river crossing near a popular Southern California hiking trail, a tragedy that unfolded as a mountain rescue team was stationed on the trail to warn hikers about dangerous conditions.
The San Dimas Mountain Rescue Team said it was talking with hikers about safety tips and river crossings around 8 a.m. while set up at the Bridge to Nowhere trailhead on the East Fork of the San Gabriel River in Angeles National Forest when “in an instant, everything changed.”
“A frantic runner came charging up the trail yelling for help,” the rescue team said in a news release. “A young mother had fallen in at the second river crossing and was swept away by the raging current.”…