Man seriously injured in 100-foot fall off cliff along Columbia River

Clark County and Rainier, Ore., firefighters helped a 30-year-old man Sunday night after he fell about 100 feet off a cliff along the Columbia River.

The firefighters were dispatched about 7 p.m. to the 73000 block of Lindberg Road in Rainier, south of Longview on the Oregon side of the river, according to a Columbia River Fire & Rescue news release.

Responding fire crews found the man fell to the shore of the river along the railroad tracks, according to the fire department. They hiked for about a mile from the end of Laurel Wood Beach Road to reach the man, who was at the bottom of a cliff and needed medical attention.

The fire department did not identify the injured man.

A Clark County Fire & Rescue boat also responded to the scene so firefighters could put the patient onto the boat at the shoreline.

From there, the man was taken to a river access point at Scipio’s Goble Landing in Oregon, where he was loaded into an ambulance and driven to a Portland hospital for treatment of serious injuries, the fire department said.

It is unknown how the man fell from the cliff.