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Mar 22, 2009 8:16 am US/Pacific

Man Badly Hurt After Fall In Studio City Riverbed

STUDIO CITY (CBS) ―

Click to enlarge 1 of 1: Firefighters used a litter basket to get the roughly 30-year-old man out of the riverbed. Paramedics took the man to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in critical condition, Brian Humphrey of the fire department said. (File)
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A man who fell from the Colfax Avenue overpass into the Los Angeles River was reported in critical condition en route to a hospital, a fire official said early Sunday.

Firefighters responded to the river near the 4000 block of Colfax next to CBS Studio Center about 11:30 p.m. and found the man in the nearly dry riverbed, Brian Humphrey of the fire department said.

The man had been climbing down a support structure from the bridge with several friends when he fell, Humphrey said.

Firefighters used a litter basket to get the roughly 30-year-old man out of the riverbed, he said. Paramedics took the man to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in critical condition, Humphrey said.