Man plunges 60 feet off cliff after rescuers revive him with Narcan, Washington cops say
A man fell about 60 feet from a cliff after he was revived with Narcan near a Washington coastline, authorities and multiple news outlets reported.
Rescuers initially responded to help a man “in distress from drug usage” on May 29 in Lower Elwha, the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
Once they administered Narcan, the man got up and ran into the woods, deputies said. Narcan is a brand of Naloxone and a medicine that helps people who are overdosing on opioids.
An officer found him in the woods, but he refused to go to them.
Instead, he walked toward a cliff and fell about 60 feet onto the beach below at about 7:12 p.m., KIRO-TV reported from authorities.
The U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Northwest airlifted the man from the beach about two hours later as the tide was rising, deputies said. He was taken to a hospital for his injuries.
Lower Elwha is tribal land on the Olympic Peninsula in western Washington.
#ICYMI (1/2) A @USCG aircrew from Air Station Port Angeles rescued a man who had fallen off a cliff near Lower Elwha, WA, on Monday night. Local EMS crews were able access the patient, but could not gain vehicle access to the area. The tide was also rising.
by @ClineNorthwest pic.twitter.com/c9nnqnBTbk— USCGPacificNorthwest (@USCGPacificNW) May 31, 2023
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