{"id":421771,"date":"2026-08-02T14:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T14:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/421771\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T14:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T14:41:11","slug":"former-cold-spring-man-credited-with-saving-life-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/421771\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Cold Spring man credited with saving life in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/midhudsonnews.com\/?attachment_id=293895\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-293895 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-293895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-93-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\"  \/><\/a>A dramatic rescue in San Diego (photo: San Diego Fire Department)<\/p>\n<p>HUDSON VALLEY- A 21-year-old former Cold Spring resident who recently moved to California is being credited with saving a climber who slipped from a cliff and hit the rocks below.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The San Diego-Fire Rescue reported lifeguard Liam Mooney, 21, responded to Pappy\u2019s Point at Sunset Cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean after a man who was climbing the face of the cliff reportedly fell, striking the rocks below.<\/p>\n<p>Mooney, an off-duty U.S. Coast Guard member entered the water and kept the patient afloat before lifeguard crews aboard jet skis and a rescue boat arrived.<\/p>\n<p>The fire department reported that crews secured the patient and used a cable-haul system to extricate him from the water. He was transferred to medics and transported with traumatic injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mooney is a former graduate of Haldane High School in Cold Spring.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/midhudsonnews.com\/2026\/08\/02\/former-cold-spring-man-credited-with-saving-life-in-california\/image-91-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-91.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-293897\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tA dramatic rescue in San Diego (photo:  San Diego Fire Department)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dramatic rescue in San Diego (photo: San Diego Fire Department) HUDSON VALLEY- A 21-year-old former Cold Spring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,168430,7648],"class_list":["post-421771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-liam-mooney","tag-rescue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421771","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=421771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}