Shawn Eggert, U.S. Coast Guard via AP
In this photo provided by United States Coast Guard, Aviation Survival Technician First Class Obrien Starr-Hollow is lowered to an injured man and a cliff rescue worker 50 feet above the water near North Head Lighthouse near Ilwaco, Wash., on July 7, 2011. A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Astoria, Ore., responded to the scene after the Pacific County Fire Department requested assistance with the rescue.
AP reported:
ILWACO, Wash. - The Coast Guard rescued a fisherman from a cliff near the North Head Lighthouse near Ilwaco, Wa. on Thursday.
The Daily News reports the 34-year-old Selah, Wash., resident was fishing from the rocks with friends when he fell. The Coast Guard sent a helicopter crew to pick him up and take him to the Coast Guard station at Cape Disappointment. He was then taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital.
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