A 21-year-old Reno woman spending her first day in Los Angeles plunged to her death Friday from a cliff at Point Fermin in San Pedro, police said. Photo via tripadvisor.comFirefighters were dispatched about 2:10 p.m.to the 500 block of West Paseo del Mar to assist police and coroner’s personnel at the scene, according to Brian Humphrey of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
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A young Nevada woman died after falling from a cliff in San Pedro, California.
The woman lost her footing and plummeted about 100-feet down, Lopez said.
Barrera, investigators said, climbed over a wall to take a picture of the view from the cliff and tripped while attempting to take the picture. Authorities said the woman tripped over her flip-flops while trying to take a photo.
The woman has been identified as Lorena Barrera. “You have to be careful wherever you go especially if you’re just trying to get a good view”, Andres Juarez, a local resident, told KNBC.
Visitors to Point Fermin Park are warned about the slippery drop.
“You can see that it’s a steep ledge”, said Ashley Guerra, a local resident.
The area has been the site of multiple deadly cliff falls over the years, including from Sunken City, the site of a 1929 landslide, farther east. “You see the railing here-tells you don’t go over and try to take pictures”.
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The stretch of cliffs where Barrera died has claimed many lives: Authorities say around a dozen people die in accidents every year, and there are also numerous suicides.
