A jet ski heads to shore to rescue the woman. Photo by Eugene Kim
On Sunday afternoon around 4:30pm, SFFD received a report that a woman had fallen off a cliff at Lands End in the area below the Legion of Honor.
She was rescued about an hour later by an emergency boat and a jet ski. She was taken to a nearby harbor and put on an ambulance but was not sent to a hospital, the fire department said.
It is unknown at this time if she sustained any injuries.
Flickr member Eugene Kim happened to be on an evening stroll at Lands End when he came upon a fire truck on the coastal trail, assisting in the rescue.
“I wasn’t expecting this when I set out for an evening stroll!” he wrote on Flickr.
Sarah B.
A fire truck attempts to turn around on the Land’s End trail in the fog after a successful rescue of a hiker.
Photo by Eugene Kim
It was crazy, but the firefighters seemed to have everything under control and were in great spirits afterward. Very glad to hear the woman is okay!
Wow… It is very different to look at these pictures from this point of view. It beat my POV at the bottom of the cliff. Thank you to everyone that helped me get off that cliff! I am so thankful to be alive with only minor injuries.
@Janea – We are too! Glad to hear you’re safe and doing okay.
Sarah B.
Sarah B. Thank you so much!!! I’m very thankful, it could have been so much worse!
In the last 7 years I have been walking the trail at least a few times a week…. easily into the multiple hundreds of times in total. I can easily estimate that I have notified fence hoppers at least 70% of those walks that people have fallen and have died.
I guess the view is just to gorgeous to use common sense.
^ I actually got caught in King Tide, amidst reports I fell off the cliff. And, contrary to what you think, did not hop a fence to get there.
Hey. What’s. Up????????????????????:-*