Face of Nation : An eyewitness to the aftermath, Jackie Benedict, told the station that onlookers immediately tried to free the victims before first responders arrived to find a group of beachgoers under debris.
Encinitas city officials said the immediate area of the collapse was closed to beachgoers and warned people to stay clear of bluffs outside the closure zone.
A few miles south of Grandview Beach, railroad tracks on bluffs in Del Mar, California, have been shut down multiple times as the earth has given way. The line is used by Amtrak and the Metrolink commuter rail system to carry more than 4 million riders a year between San Diego and Los Angeles. “Since the summer of 2018, six bluff failures have been reported in the Del Mar Bluffs area resulting in train traffic delays,” the North County Transit District, which runs the tracks, said in June.
