Firefighters respond to woman who fell off cliff at Fort Funston

Firefighters were working to rescue a woman who fell off a cliff at Fort Funston, near Lake Merced, in San Francisco on Thursday evening.

The San Francisco Fire Department issued a statement about the rescue on Twitter just after 5 p.m.

Firefighters referred questions to the National Park Service. Further details were not immediately available.

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