Driver survives 100-foot plunge off cliff, 5 days trapped in truck
A driver who plunged off a 100-foot cliff in a remote area of California and spent five days "immobilized" in their wrecked pickup truck, was rescued by firefighters. A driver who plunge d off a 100-foot cliff in a remote area of Southern California and spent five days "immobilized" in their wrecked pickup truck , was rescued this weekend by firefighters who formed a human pulley system to pluck the victim from the ravine, authorities said. The rescue unfolded about 10:58 a.m. local time on Saturday in the Tehachapi Mountains of Kern County when a 911 caller reported seeing a vehicle at the bottom of a steep ravine on a zig-zagging two-lane road between the towns of Arvin and Stallion Springs, according to a Kern County Fire Department incident report. When firefighters got to the secluded scene, they found a badly damaged pickup truck and one occupant at the bottom of a 100-foot cliff , according to the report. Kern County Fire Department rescued a person fro...