Crews searched for three people who went missing in the water near Rattlesnake Falls in Soda Springs, officials said Wednesday.

Three bodies were recovered by the Placer County Sheriff's Office after a hiking accident at Rattlesnake Falls.

On Saturday, volunteer diver Juan Heredia from Stockton hiked for three hours on a remote trail in the Sierra Nevada, through hail and stormy conditions, and recovered the bodies of three men who drowned last week at Rattlesnake Falls, near Soda Springs.