{"id":395743,"date":"2026-07-12T16:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T16:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/395743\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T16:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T16:45:11","slug":"hang-glider-rescued-after-crashing-onto-san-francisco-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/395743\/","title":{"rendered":"Hang glider rescued after crashing onto San Francisco beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hang glider crashed onto a San Francisco beach on Saturday and had to be rescued by firefighters, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The San Francisco Fire Department said on social media just after 4 p.m. Saturday that the glider was rescued from the beach in between Fort Funston and Sloat Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Beach rescue<\/p>\n<p>SFFD paramedics and rescue companies were requested to respond to a glider incident at Fort Funston. <\/p>\n<p>The person was rescued from the beach in between Fort Funston and slowed Avenue entrance and was transported by local ambulance to a local trauma center. <\/p>\n<p>With\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XL9zkoV41y\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/XL9zkoV41y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SAN FRANCISCO FIRE DEPARTMENT MEDIA (@SFFDPIO) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SFFDPIO\/status\/2076081095666434063?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">July 11, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The unidentified person was taken by ambulance to a local trauma center. The person&#8217;s injuries and condition were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>It was the second glider-related crash in two days in the area. On Friday, crews rescued an injured paraglider after he slammed into a the cliff face at Mussel Rock in Daly City, according to the North County Fire Authority.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sf-hang-glider-rescue.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"sf-hang-glider-rescue.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Emergency responders at Sloat Boulevard and Great Highway in San Francisco during the rescue of an injured hang glider, July 11, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                San Francisco Fire Department<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hang glider crashed onto a San Francisco beach on Saturday and had to be rescued by firefighters,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-395743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395743","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=395743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}