Dillon Falls, Deschutes River and search and rescue
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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,
Friends and family are remembering Lindsay Bashan and Amanda Loyd, whose bodies have been recovered from the Deschutes River, after part of their group of six went over Dillon Falls during a tubing float.
The Deschutes County Sheriff's Office issued a statement after a well-known rescue diver was turned away from a search below Dillon Falls.
The powerful Deschutes River is believed to have pulled a group of people on inner tubes over a waterfall, killing at least two people.
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.
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The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office identified the two victims who died in the accident as Amanda Lloyd, 40, and Lindsay Bashan, 33.
The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday identified two victims as Amanda Lloyd, 40, of Rockwall and Lindsay Bashan, 33, of Parkland, Fla.
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.