Investigation underway after firefighters rescue man from hillside

Firefighters rescued a 69-year-old man on Saturday from a steep hillside near Highway 154 in Santa Barbara County.

Crews were called to the Cold Spring Canyon Arch Bridge area just before 6 a.m, according to an X post by Santa Barbara County Fire Department public information officer Capt. Scott Safechuck.

Safechuck said first-responders used a rope rescue system to reach the man, who had crashed his car into a roadside ditch before traveling about 200 feet through brush down a steep hillside, where he fell and injured himself…

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