Body Found Floating Near Golden Gate Bridge

By Bay City News Service:

A body was found in San Francisco Bay near the Golden Gate Bridge Tuesday morning, San Francisco fire officials said.

Reports of a body floating in the Bay came in around 7:30 a.m., a fire dispatcher said.

As of about 8:30 a.m., crews had recovered the body and taken it on board a city fireboat, which was headed back to shore.

The U.S. Coast Guard assisted the fire department in recovering the body.

It appears the person had been dead for about a week, Coast Guard officials said.

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