A 70-year-old man died Tuesday after falling from a cliff along California\u2019s treacherous Devil\u2019s Slide, an oceanside stretch in Pacifica known for steep terrain that has led to several fatal accidents. <\/p>\n
Officials said witnesses saw the man, later identified as Franciscus Blom, of Boulder Creek, experiencing a medical emergency before he plunged to his death, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a>. <\/p>\n Officials with the coroner\u2019s office for San Mateo County declined to share any possible cause or manner of death in the case. <\/p>\n San Mateo County emergency responders rushed to Gray Whale Cove State Beach, also known as Devil\u2019s Slide, just before noon Tuesday after several people reported that someone had fallen from a cliff, according to the Sheriff\u2019s Office. Specialized rescue teams responded, but were unable to save Blom, the agency said. <\/p>\n The Devil\u2019s Slide area was for many decades an infamous stretch<\/a> of Highway 1 until officials rerouted the roadway farther inland with a tunnel, converting the old road into a popular paved trail<\/a>. But south of the tunnel, Highway 1 still parallels a stretch of towering cliffs overlooking a sheltered cove. At Gray Whale Cove State Beach, a steep trail leads down to a beach.<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t immediately clear exactly from where Blom fell, but the area is known to be perilous. <\/p>\n Last year, a woman died after falling from a cliff in the Devil\u2019s Slide area,<\/a> according to the San Mateo Daily Journal. It\u2019s also the area where a man, in 2023, drove his family\u2019s Tesla off a cliff<\/a>, but they miraculously survived. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 70-year-old man died Tuesday after falling from a cliff along California\u2019s treacherous Devil\u2019s Slide, an oceanside stretch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,23092,12774,61688,90584,1575,90585,1555,346,3335,72140,90583,90582,68,16929],"class_list":["post-193623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-cliff","tag-coroner","tag-devil","tag-franciscus-blom","tag-highway","tag-infamous-stretch","tag-man","tag-office","tag-official","tag-san-mateo-county-sheriff","tag-slide-area","tag-slide-death","tag-tuesday","tag-tunnel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193623","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=193623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}