Bend Police release new details about victim of 30-foot fall from cliff at Sawyer Park
Gregory Deffenbaugh
(Update: Police identify fall victim)
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Bend Policehad some new information to share Tuesday about a man who was seriously injured Monday in a 30-foot fall from from a cliff at Sawyer Park.
Bend PD Communications Manager Sheila Miller told KTVZ News that officers have positively identified the victim as a 53-year-old Bend man. She said she did not yet have a condition yet on the man, who sustained life-threatening injuries in Monday’s fall.
Shortly after 11 a.m. Monday, Bend Police responded to a report of a man who had fallen from an approximately 30-foot cliff in Sawyer Park.
The 911 caller reported he could see the man at the bottom of a cliff at the edge of the Deschutes River, and the victim appeared to have serious injuries.
Bend Police requested assistance from Deschutes County Search & Rescue, and two officers were able to reach the man and provide care until Bend Fire & Rescue medics and SAR arrived on scene.
Medics and SAR personnel lifted the victim out of the canyon shortly after noon, and he was taken by ambulance to St. Charles Bend.
An investigation into the incident is ongoing.
Bend Police said they wish to thank Bend Fire & Rescue and Deschutes County Search & Rescue personnel for their assistance.