3 Anglers Rescued From Newport Jetty

Lifeguards rescued three anglers who were trapped by high tide as they fished off a jetty Monday night.

A Santa Ana man, his 15-year-old daughter and an Anaheim man were stranded at the tip of Ladder Rock, just off Camero Shores, when the early evening tide brought a pounding surf that made walking back toward shore treacherous, according to Sgt. Karl von Voigt of the Orange County Sheriff’s Harbor Patrol.

The trio was “cold and shaken,” but uninjured, when they were rescued shortly before 9 p.m., von Voigt said. Their names were not released.

“Everything worked out great, they didn’t panic, and they stayed where they were and allowed themselves to be rescued,” von Voigt said.

City lifeguards Gordon Reed and Brian Ismagil reached the shivering trio and swam them out and away from the jetty to a Harbor Patrol fire boat, officials said.

“It was safer that way,” von Voigt said. “The surf has a lot of power and if they had tried walking in, they might have got knocked off or thrown into the rocks.”