Firefighters Rescue Two Teens Stranded at Stoney Point in Chatsworth

Firefighter approaches stranded teens. Screengrab from KCAL footage.

Los Angeles Firefighters endured a two-hour effort to successfully save two teenagers from a perilous cliff in the northwest San Fernando Valley on Tuesday night.

Witnesses reported two teen males stranded on a cliff at the popular Stoney Point. The pair, both 18-years-old, reportedly separated from a group of friends and wrongfully chose a path that led them to the cliff. Trapped at dusk on a narrow and rocky recess, their position made a helicopter rescue quite difficult to maneuver.

A total of 68 Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) personnel were summoned to the incident. Firefighters hiked up the steep, winding terrain at sunset as an LAFD command helicopter and a 30 million candlepower spotlight lit their way. A second LAFD air ambulance helicopter, configured for hoist operations, hovered nearby. After rappelling 50 feet down the cliff, one firefighter prepared both males mentally and physically for the rescue.

A member of LAFD's Urban Search and Rescue unit placed each boy into a harness and assisted in the accompanied descent down the cliff.

Neither of the teens were injured and reunited safely with friends and a parent.