Chapter 26
Little did they know that an Irrigation District employee named Jeff Winrick was inspecting the canal early the next day.
Jeff found the broken gate and mused it must have been kids gaining access to a hidden location for one of their Kegger parties.
He had checked the security gate padlock yesterday and it had been secure.
The Irrigation District employee had only traveled about a 1/4 mile along the canal road when he noticed tire tracks in the gravel road that led over the edge of the canal and disappeared at the water’s edge.
“Oh Gawd, I bet we have a car load of kids that drove into the ditch,” he thought to himself.
He ran back to his pick-up truck and notified 911, asking for law enforcement and rescue vehicles to come to the scene.
The second call he made was to hi
