{"id":192197,"date":"2026-02-25T00:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/192197\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T00:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:44:10","slug":"man-falls-and-dies-off-cliff-on-california-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/192197\/","title":{"rendered":"Man falls and dies off cliff on California coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A person is dead after falling from a cliff off the coast south of San Francisco, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p>San Mateo County Sheriff&#8217;s deputies responded at about 11:45 a.m. to reports of a person who&#8217;d fallen off a cliff near the Gray Whale Cove State Park, in an area known as the Devil&#8217;s Slide. Authorities dispatched a special rescue team but the person was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A witness told police that the person may have been experiencing a medical emergency before the fall. The county coroner&#8217;s office has not released the name of the person pending notification of next of kin.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The death prompted authorities to shut down Highway 1 for about 30 minutes to allow first responders to get to the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/article\/devils-slide-fatal-fall-21939361.php?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=yahoo_syndication\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Man falls and dies off cliff on California coast;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Man falls and dies off cliff on California coast<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person is dead after falling from a cliff off the coast south of San Francisco, authorities said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,23092,90079,90081,90080,90082],"class_list":["post-192197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-cliff","tag-devil39s-slide","tag-gray-whale-cove-state-beach","tag-gray-whale-cove-state-park","tag-special-rescue-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}