Man plunges 60 feet off cliff after rescuers revive him with Narcan, Washington cops say
A man fell about 60 feet from a cliff after he was revived with Narcan near a Washington coastline, authorities and multiple news outlets reported.
Rescuers initially responded to help a man “in distress from drug usage” on May 29 in Lower Elwha, the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
Once they administered Narcan, the man got up and ran into the woods, deputies said. Narcan is a brand of Naloxone and a medicine that helps people who are overdosing on opioids.
An officer found him in the woods, but he refused to go to them.
Instead, he walked toward a cliff and fell about 60 feet onto the beach below at about 7:12 p.m., KIRO-TV reported from authorities.
The U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Northwest airlifted the man from the beach about two hours later as the tide was rising, deputies said. He was taken to a hospital for his injuries.
Lower Elwha is tribal land on the Olympic Peninsula in western Washington.
This story was originally published May 31, 2023 at 1:48 PM with the headline "Man plunges 60 feet off cliff after rescuers revive him with Narcan, Washington cops say."
