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Tense moments after four people have to be rescued from Santa Barbara County cliff

Santa Barbara County Fire Department

No injuries reported in Saturday night ordeal.

Santa Barbara County firefighters had to make a double rescue at a beach.

It happened just before midnight Saturday in Isla Vista. A woman became stuck about 10 to 15 feet down the face of a cliff off of Del Playa.

Three men tried to reach the stuck woman from the beach, but they then became stuck by the rising high tide.

Santa Barbara County firefighters rescued all four trapped people. No injuries were reported.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.