4-Year-Old Boy Survives 230-foot Cliff Fall
   
      
 Sonoma County authorities say a 4-year-old boy who survived a 230-foot fall from a seaside cliff in Bodega Bay was hospitalized in critical but stable condition.
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat says the child was on a family outing on a trail at Bodega Head Monday evening when he suddenly couldn't be found.
Bodega Bay Fire Department rescuers spotted the boy on the rocky beach at the bottom of the cliff.
Two firefighter-paramedics rappelled down with a rescue basket and reached the boy, with help from illumination flares fired into the air from a Coast Guard motor lifeboat.
Fire Captain Justin Fox says the boy was awake and crying by the time he was loaded into an ambulance and rushed to a hospital.
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