{"id":193538,"date":"2026-02-25T19:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/193538\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T19:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:51:09","slug":"person-dies-in-cliff-plunge-along-devils-slide-at-gray-whale-cove-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/193538\/","title":{"rendered":"Person dies in cliff plunge along Devil&#8217;s Slide at Gray Whale Cove beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person fell from a cliff along the Devil&#8217;s Slide area of the San Mateo County coast and died on Tuesday, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The San Mateo County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said deputies and Cal Fire personnel responded at about 11:45 a.m. to Gray Whale Cove State Beach following reports of a person who had fallen from a cliff. According to a witness, the person may have experienced a medical emergency before falling over the cliff, the Sheriff&#8217;s Office said.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue teams reached the person, but the person was pronounced dead at the scene, the office said.<\/p>\n<p>The San Mateo County Coroner&#8217;s Office will determine the cause of death and notify the person&#8217;s family members.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A portion of state Highway 1 was closed for about 30 minutes while first responders accessed the beach below.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person fell from a cliff along the Devil&#8217;s Slide area of the San Mateo County coast and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[6980,14439,101,103,102,397,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-193538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-cal-fire","9":"tag-highway-1","10":"tag-san-francisco","11":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","12":"tag-san-francisco-news","13":"tag-san-mateo-county","14":"tag-sf","15":"tag-sf-headlines","16":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193538","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=193538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}