Woman Rescued After Fall From Ocean Blvd. Construction Scaffold

posted: September 7th, 2012 10:10 am | 4Comments

A woman who apparently was trespassing on a home under construction on Ocean Boulevard fell 20 feet from a scaffold on Thursday night, officials said.

The incident occurred at 8:06 p.m. in the 3400 block of Ocean Boulevard near Narcissus Avenue, according to an online police call log.

A man and a woman were possibly drinking alcohol when they went for a walk, said Newport Beach Fire Department Division Chief Ron Gamble.

The couple climbed past a green construction fence and onto the cliffside property, and the woman apparently climbed some scaffolding, he said.

The woman’s male friend saw the fall, Gamble said. “She fell about 20 feet,” he said. “He called our for her. She didn’t answer…he called 911.”

Emergency crews arrived at the scene, which was dark and difficult to access. The scaffold was set in a narrow space between two homes, on an angled slope that was covered with gravel, making it slippery, Gable said.

A fire truck with an aerial extension was called to illuminate the scene, and engines and medics from the Corona del Mar fire station arrived to coordinate the rescue of the woman. The woman had to be placed in a hand basket and moved up in a rope rescue procedure. She then was taken to Western Medical Center in Santa Ana as a trauma patient, although she was conscious and able to move at the scene.

Top photo courtesy of Corona del Mar Today reader Jason; bottom photo courtesy of the NBFD.

4 Responses to “Woman Rescued After Fall From Ocean Blvd. Construction Scaffold”

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Greg

September 7th, 2012

She'll no doubt try to sue everyone for her own stupidity.

Jamie

September 9th, 2012

Maybe if this project hadn't been drug out for what? Going on 3 YEARS now, then the job would have been completed and the woman wouldn't have entered the property. Something needs to be done about these jobs in CDM that drag out for years, often as the result of very little activity. These unnecessarily extended construction projects are an inconvenience to neighbors and harm property values until completed. There should be a 1 year maximum time limit on construction.

arnie

September 10th, 2012

Jamie, maybe you should understand that the City and the coastal commission make it almost impossible to build these houses because of so much red tape and adding of complexity and monitoring to the construction process and that is why it takes years to build them. To blame the slow construction on why this woman illegally entered a job site and fell instead of on her own stupidity is not realistic.

Shannon

October 6th, 2012

This article is ridiculously judgmental, and I'd like to know where you got your sources. Please check your sources for credibility before you make petty accusations about the woman "possibly drinking alcohol" (which quite frankly is not relevant to the story and incredibly inaccurate). Also, to the readers who are almost as equally and blindly judgmental, maybe your time would be better spent doing more productive things rather than making rude comments on a story about a woman getting tragically hurt from a fall (which is more important than the fact that it happened to be from a house under construction). Thanks for your time. Hopefully when you, or someone you know, gets hurt by your/their "own stupidity" other readers won't be as judgmental when they don't know the whole story.


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