[UPDATE 10:51 a.m.] Multiple Agencies Responding to the Report of a Suicidal Subject in the Trinidad Head Area
As of a few minutes before 10 a.m., the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department and a member of State Parks is searching for a suicidal subject in the area of Trinidad Head. An ambulance as well as Trinidad Fire Department are staging nearby after Emergency Dispatch informed them that there is a possible suicidal subject standing on a cliff in the area.
One emergency service person is “suiting up” to go out into the water.
Another officer is cutting the lock and accessing the area.
UPDATE 10:17 a.m.: Officers are now seeing the subject and have a “negotiater” unit headed to the area.
UPDATE 10:33 a.m.: Personnel are headed out on a rescue board to be in position in the water.
UPDATE 10:37 a.m.: The subject has moved away from the cliff but is still “uncooperative,” the dispatcher tells officers.
UPDATE 10:41 a.m.: Coast Guard helicopter is now in the area.
UPDATE 10:51 a.m.: Medical personnel and the Coast Guard are being told they can return to quarters. The subject is with officers.
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Times are tough, very sad. Hoping for the best.
🕯🌳I wish they’d say if it was Male or female?
National Suicide Prevention Hotline:
1-(800)-273-8255 / 1-(800)-273-TALK or there is an online chat one can go to. With help there’s hope.
I am pleased the person is safe now and with officer’s. Hopefully now he will receive some much needed help. Suicide not only takes your life, but also your family and friends will have to live with it forever.
Thank you so much for the update
Not to mention some good and brave people often have to go risk THEIR lives when someone does something like this.
They’re probably take the person to jail. That should “help”.
wrongo
Thank you for reaching out and saving this soul today. Times are tough and many times people need to know it can and will get better.
One VERY distraught individual. Good work on the part of the professionals. Thank you all.
Need to fence off them cliffs, i do love a good free solo climb though once in awhile.
If the police were cutting the lock, it sound like it’s already fenced.
one reason we all feel like we could take ourselves out next is there are so many rules and fences and gates, and your solution is to put more up!!
freedom is what is missing not safety.
But don’t you constantly advocate for less freedom?
Funny, I’ll bite:
How many cliffs are in the Trinidad/ Patrick’s Point/Westhaven-Moon Stone area alone?
So glad this individual was able to change their mind. I hope they don’t just get stuffed into sempervirens tonight. That place is horrible and not helpful! When someone is this desperate the last thing they need is to feel like a criminal. Your life is worth living friend. I wish you the best.
So true. Mental “Health” System round here needs to change. Hope this is not related to student suicide at McKinleyville High School earlier this week.
How about some details? What do you think should be provided? Who should it be provided to? Do you think involuntary commitments are ok? What should be the standard? What if there are not enough providers? It’s easy to a magic wand saying someone should provide a fix but it gets tricky when you get specific.
I don’t have all the answers. What am saying is, from personal experience, sempervirens is not helpful – it is not succeeding in filling the roll it’s intended to. The staff needs to be more caring, attentive, thorough, genuine and just all around more helpful. Being treated like a criminal or crazy person when you’re at your all time low isn’t going to help. People need compassion, and access to true resources. It’s impossible to find good mental health up here. We need more income being diverted to increase the QUALITY and ACCESSIBILITY of mental health resources.
This is the father of the boy who committed suicide at McKinleyville high Friday. Prayers to the family
Your comment is inappropriate.
I fail to see why providing the specific individual to the community at large is necessary.
This is not helpful to the family at all.
Times are not tough….
People in our community are definitely overwhelmed though.
Good mental health begins with good parenting.