The water's height isn’t the only reason to avoid interacting with the river this season.
. Truckee River levels are supposed to reach as high as 9 feet, a forecaster at the National Weather Service told SFGATE.
But height isn’t the only reason to avoid interacting with the river. It’s also running at high speeds and cold temperatures. “It’s not just the big melt and the higher flows. It’s also the fact that with the high snow melt, the river is going to be much colder, which then zaps somebody’s energy if they’re struggling within the water,” Steve Siebert, the Reno Fire Department battalion chief, told SFGATE. “It’s going to be an extended river rescue season, for lack of a better term.”
The fire department has a special Water Entry Team on call trained to enter the water at pre-identified entry points to pull civilians out. The unit expects water rescues will double this season compared with years passed.
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