Firefighters worked for about 70 minutes Wednesday night to rescue a woman who became trapped in a narrow space after falling roughly 30 feet outside an Old Town apartment complex.
According to the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department, the incident was reported a few minutes before 9:30 p.m. at a complex at the top of Ampudia Street, a road that dead-ends on a short, steep hill just north of San Diego Avenue, the main drag through Old Town’s restaurant district.
Firefighters with specialized search and rescue capabilities worked to free the woman for more than an hour, according to the Fire-Rescue Department’s incident log.
Footage from NBC7 showed she was finally lifted out of the confined space where she was trapped about 10:50 p.m., and then loaded into an ambulance and taken to a hospital.
A Fire Department official said he did not know the extent of the woman’s injuries or how she fell. The 9-1-1 caller who reported the fall said the woman had plunged 30 feet.
Footage from the scene did not make it clear what type of crevice, exactly, the woman fell into. The gap where she was trapped appeared to be roughly two to three feet wide, between two walls that each stand about eight feet high — though it was unclear if the crevice was deeper between the walls than it appeared from the outside.
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