Dead body pulled from Lake Merced

Fire Department crews pulled a body out of the water of San Francisco’s Lake Merced Saturday afternoon, a dispatcher said.

Fire crews responded to TPC Harding Park on a report of a body found in the water at 2:48 p.m., the dispatcher said. He said he did not know the gender or age of the person found.

Police deferred questions about the incident to the Fire Department and medical examiner’s office. A spokesperson for the medical examiner’s office said the person has not yet been identified.