A cyclist who fell from a 50-foot cliff near Chula Vista and became trapped in the canyon below was rescued after U.S. Border Patrol agents in the area heard his cries for help Saturday night, officials said.<\/p>\n
The rescue occurred after federal agents were patrolling near Otay Lakes County Park and heard someone calling out in a canyon near Savage Dam, Border Patrol officials said.<\/p>\n
The agents hiked toward the voice and found the seriously injured cyclist at the base of the cliff, officials said.<\/p>\n
Hours earlier, the cyclist had lost his footing while walking his bike along a trail on the canyon wall and fallen to the bottom, agents said. His injuries left him unable to move.<\/p>\n
A video filmed on one of the agent\u2019s body-worn cameras shows Border Patrol officials medically treating the bloodied cyclist while he is lying on a bed of grass and rocks in the dark.<\/p>\n
\u201cI see you have your helmet on. Are you aware you lost consciousness?\u201d one of the agents asks the cyclist.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo,\u201d the man responds.<\/p>\n
The agents bandage the cyclist\u2019s wounds, cover him in an emergency blanket and stay by his side until he is hoisted away by the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department\u2019s helicopter, the video shows. He was then taken to a nearby hospital, officials said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no doubt in my mind that these agents saved this man\u2019s life,\u201d said acting Chief Patrol Agent Jeffrey Stalnaker. \u201cI am truly thankful the agents were in the right place at the right time to make a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Sunday, agents returned to the canyon and retrieved the man\u2019s bicycle and personal belongings. The items were returned to the cyclist\u2019s wife.<\/p>\n
Details on the medical condition of the cyclist were unknown Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cyclist who fell from a 50-foot cliff near Chula Vista and became trapped in the canyon below…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":252927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,16214,5295,728,50,3549,3550,7264,34159,7289,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-252926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-chula-vista","12":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-san-diego","16":"tag-san-diego-county","17":"tag-sandiego","18":"tag-south-county","19":"tag-top-stories-sdut","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115263457477883052","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}