Crime & Safety

Santa Cruz Fire Rescues Fisherman Who Fell Off West Cliff

Santa Cruz Firefighters Tuesday rescued a 60-year-old man who was fishing and fell off the cliff at West Cliff and Columbia. 

He was 30 feet from shore when they arrived at 2:49 p.m., lying on a rock, with an injured head and shoulder. He had been on the rock for an hour, he told them.

Rescue swimmers and a Harbor Patrol boat got him to shore and an ambulance to him to a trauma center in Santa Clara County.



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