3 Men Spend Night Stranded in Canyon : Rescue: Mild weather helped the Edison Co. contract employees emerge unharmed from a ledge in the wilderness.

They had no food or drinking water and wore only jeans and short-sleeve cotton shirts.

But all three Southern California Edison contract workers came away unharmed Tuesday after being stranded the night before in Suicide Canyon in the Angeles National Forest.

The canyon is known for its steep cliffs, rugged terrain and waterfalls.

“I don’t think they slept,” said sheriff’s Deputy Don Wyman of the Crescenta Valley station in La Crescenta. “They were pretty much up because they were scared and probably a little anxious.”

The workers also were spared by relatively warm weather in the mountains. Temperatures dipped only into the 50s, Wyman said.

Rialto residents Jairo Corujedo, 18, and Saul Bermudez, 18, and Martin Martinez, 24, of Anaheim were reported missing Monday night by Corujedo’s 23-year-old brother, Alonso.

The men were working for Landscape West, an Anaheim company contracted by Edison to clear brush and debris around power poles from Mt. Lukens to Big Tujunga Canyon, sheriff’s officials said.

Neither the workers nor Jack Vrtar, a vice president at Landscape West, could be reached for comment.

Edison officials said it was the first time they had contracted with Landscape West and had no additional information about the company.

“We do this once a year (with) different contractors,” Edison spokesman Ed Van Herik said.

Alonso Corujedo told deputies he had dropped the three men off at Mt. Lukens and had been waiting for them in Big Tujunga Canyon at 5:30 p.m.

“It was a two-day project and they decided to get it all done in one day,” Lt. Jerry Carrigan said.

After work, the three men walked down a trail that ended at a cliff, Carrigan said. By then it was already dark, preventing the workers from backtracking.

Alonso Corujedo waited three hours for them before driving to a nearby U.S. Forest Service station to call the Sheriff’s Department.

By 10 p.m., a sheriff’s search and rescue team started looking for the men and eventually made voice contact with them, Wyman said.

“They just told them to stay put” so helicopters could spot them the next morning, he said.

But shortly after 6 a.m. Tuesday, “everybody was looking for the easiest way down,” Wyman said.

A fire service helicopter spotted Bermudez at 6:35 a.m. walking along a trail. He was eventually flown back to the Forest Service station, officials said.

Five minutes later, Martinez showed up at the same station after climbing down a cliff, crossing a 20-foot-wide stream and walking about a mile.

“He was wet, but he was fine,” Wyman said. “He looked tired.”

The last to be rescued was Jairo Corujedo, who was stuck on a 150-foot ledge and had to be flown down.