What started as a training session ended with Mesa firefighters rescuing a man from the Salt River on Tuesday.

The campaign focuses on two primary objectives: preventing impaired boating and ensuring overall water safety.

A man drowned in the Salt River near the Blue Point Recreation Area around 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 18, according to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — One person is dead, and a search is actively underway after two people went under and didn’t resurface at Salt River. Around 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Maricopa County ...

PHOENIX – One person is dead and another is missing after a Salt River drowning incident on Wednesday evening, authorities said. Deputies responded to a drowning call at the Sheep’s Crossing ...

Two people are dead after going underwater and never resurfacing at the Sheep's Crossing Recreation Site on the Salt River ... at about 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday due to reports of a drowning.

Maricopa County Sheriff's Office say two men have died after they went underwater at the Salt River Wednesday evening. Officials were called to the Sheep's Crossing Recreation Site around 5:40 p.m ...

PHOENIX - Two drownings on the Salt River have pushed the number of drownings there to well above average. On Saturday, two brothers ages 16 and 24 were picnicking on the beach near Blue Point Bridge.

The two men who drowned in the Salt River at Sheep's Crossing on Sept. 18 were Afghan nationals who came to America to escape the Taliban. "They came to America to escape the Taliban and then this ...

Two men who drowned in the Salt River on Sept.18 were cousins from Afghanistan who came to the United States to escape the Taliban after assisting the U.S. military with intelligence efforts.