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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The cops aren’t gonna say it was heat stroke until they have the toxicology results.  They ran tox for a reason and this  wouldn’t be a 60 page thread if the cause of death were obvious.  I think I was likely heat-related but clearly something about the scene led the cops to suspect there might be more to the story.  Could be undisclosed details or could just be the fact that all 4 of them died in the same area and same loose timeframe.  I don’t think that’s weird but clearly lots of people do.[/quote]

The initial reports point to the proximity of the bodies:

“Coming across a scene where everyone involved, including the family dog that is deceased, that is not a typical thing that we have seen or other agencies have seen," Kristie Mitchell previously told the Fresno Bee. "That is why we're treating it as a hazmat situation. We just don't know."

I think there probably had been a lot of discussion in the public safety community there about what warning level to provide re the toxic algae blooms. I gather that what they went with at the time was just a “Caution” saying not to touch them or let dogs drink water near them, when they could have gone with a warning telling people not to swim in that part of the river.  Likely a swim or at least a close-up view of the river (which is apparently beautiful) was one of the only reasons LE could think of for the family to be out on that steep and desolate trail on such a brutally hot day.

It seems likely to me that heatstroke is the culprit, but that’s based on information released after several days of investigation. When investigators first found the bodies, they likely didn’t know how long the family had been on the trail before dying or what path they took. I’m sure it was a shocking sight.

Hopefully the toxicology reports come back soon.

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The Fresno Bee's homepage was a warning to stay out of/away from Millerton Lake, a very popular summer day trip destination for the whole area, because of toxic algae, so it's definitely something that would have been on everybody's mind.  Like the adage about hoofbeats, if you just read your newspaper talking about zebras, that might be your first thought.
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