Dillon Falls, Deschutes River
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Two women who plunged down a waterfall while tubing on an Oregon river have been identified and remembered as loving adventurers. Amanda Loyd, 40, and Lindsay Bashan, 33, were swept into the main rapids of Dillon Falls after missing the final takeout area before a treacherous part of the Deschutes River.
The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday identified two victims as Amanda Lloyd, 40, of Rockwall and Lindsay Bashan, 33, of Parkland, Fla.
The group of six who accidentally floated to Dillon Falls on the Deschutes River near Bend were in inner tubes tied together and included a Texas woman who had just celebrated her 40th birthday and a 33-year-old woman from Florida, authorities said Tuesday.
Amanda Loyd, 40, and her friend Lindsay Bashan, 33, have been identified as two of the people who died after a group of friends went over a waterfall in Oregon on July 19. The search for a man, who has not been named,
A multi-agency search continued Tuesday for one person missing after six went over the Dillon Falls on Oregon's Deschutes River, resulting in two death and three hospitalizations.
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A group of six went over Dillon Falls on Saturday. Three were rescued and another died at the scene. Two others were missing, one of whom has now been found dead.
Six people were floating the Deschutes River on Saturday afternoon when they missed a chance to exit the river before its perilous 15-foot drop. Three people were rescued from the river and one person was found dead that day.
A woman from Parkland died on an Oregon river Saturday after she and two other people were swept over a waterfall and into the rapids, authorities said.
The powerful Deschutes River is believed to have pulled a group of people on inner tubes over a waterfall, killing at least two people.
Another person has died as a result of Saturday's fatal waterfall accident in central Oregon. The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office (DCSO) confirmed that their team of divers recovered the body of a second victim,