Lifeguard truck
A San Diego lifeguard truck. Photo by Alexander Nguyen

A man was injured early Friday morning when he fell roughly 50 feet down an ocean-front bluff in the Sunset Cliffs area of San Diego.

It happened around 3 a.m. near Sunset Cliffs Boulevard and Ladera Street, just northwest of Sunset Cliffs Natural Park, San Diego Fire-Rescue Department officials said.

The victim was conscious when emergency rescue crews reached him on the sandy beach, firefighters and lifeguards told dispatchers.

He was airlifted to UCSD Medical Center in Hillcrest with injuries of unknown severity.

— City News Service

Chris Jennewein is Editor & Publisher of Times of San Diego.