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    CA FFs Rescue Man from Hiking Trail

    Aug. 3, 2022
    San Diego Fire-Rescue crews set up a rope system and lowered the patient about 400 feet to the beach below where an ambulance was waiting.
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    San Diego Fire-Rescue shared images on its Facebook page of a rescue this weekend.

    Firefighters and lifeguards rescued a man in his 70's who suffered an injury while on a trail above Black's Beach.

    They set up a rope system and lowered the patient about 400 feet to the beach below where he was taken by lifeguards in a pickup truck to an awaiting ambulance.

    The patient was taken to a local hospital.     

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