A Border Patrol agent led firefighters to the wrong side of the fence where they couldn’t reach the Guatemalan woman stranded on top
A woman stuck atop the border fence near Otay Mesa yelled to a Border Patrol agent that she was going to fall moments before plunging to her death March 21, 2024. A Guatemalan woman plunged to her death after she was stranded atop a 30-foot border fence near Otay Mesa for at least 24 minutes, in part due to a Border Patrol agent initially leading firefighters to the wrong location, according to videos of the March incident and information recently published by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
CBP did not respond to questions about what led the agent to guide the firefighters to the wrong side of the fence. The agency said in a statement that it “is committed to transparency and accountability” and the incident remains under investigation by CBP’s Office of Professional Responsibility. According to CBP, a surveillance camera captured live images of several people with a ladder who had made it past the first fence and were approaching the second fence.
“The thing is we can’t put ladders until the fire department comes,” the agent told the man in Spanish.“Because it’s right there,” the man told the agent in apparent protest.CBP did not respond to questions regarding its border fence rescue policies and whether those policies prohibit agents from attempting potentially dangerous rescues or using ladders that are not from the fire department.
“We have worked with CBP extensively to train their agents to include vital details that will assist us in sending the appropriate resource for the incident at hand,” Muñoz, the Fire-Rescue Department spokesperson, said in a statement. “In this case, CBP did the right thing by telling us the height of the wall at that initial location, but CBP did not provide SDFD with the best access point to the patient.
Ten minutes after the woman fell, and about 20 minutes after they’d first arrived on the wrong side of the fence, the firefighters made it back to the scene. After trying to resuscitate the woman, who had massive head trauma and no pulse, they conferred with a doctor over the phone to declare her dead. The county Medical Examiner’s Office retrieved her body hours later.
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