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Mother remembers son, 13, who died in Merced River drowning

Reading Time: 2 minutes A 13-year-old boy drowned over the weekend in what marked the third water death of the year in Merced County.  Fidel Farias, from Modesto was swimming with family members at the Merced River when a current swept him under. Divers from the Merced County Sheriff’s Office responded to Cressey Bridge Saturday at 7:30 p.m. A remote vehicle located Farias at 18 feet underwater, and divers recovered his body. In the days followi…
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A family is devastated after the death of Fidel Cisneros Farías, a 13-year-old boy who drowned in the Merced River last weekend. Mrs. Guadalupe Farías, the child’s mother, never imagined that a family walk would turn into a tragedy. Guadalupe reported that last Saturday, Fidel and his brothers went to spend the weekend with his father and the child insisted on going to the river to swim. It was at that time that the incident happened. “They had …

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Telemundo Fresno broke the news on Thursday, July 16, 2026.
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