Firefighters rescued a man who fell into a waterfall near Lake Elsinore on Saturday, Aug. 5.
The unidentified man fell approximately 30 feet into the Teneja Falls, a recreation area in the Ortega Mountains west of Lake Elsinore, according to Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire Department.
A Cal Fire helicopter and crew extracted the man from the remote area and took him to a ground ambulance, which transported him to a hospital for treatment of moderate injuries, the fire department said.
The waterfall is the biggest in the Cleveland National Forest’s San Mateo wilderness area and is reached via the Santa Rosa Plateau in the Cleveland National Forest.