Crews challenged by new barbed wire in rescue of man from border wall

Crews challenged by new barbed wire in rescue of man from border wall

Firefighters worked to rescue a man who was stuck between two 30-foot high border fences in Otay Mesa on Thursday.

Man stuck on border wall in Otay Mesa rescued

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) -- Crews with the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department responded to the border wall in Otay Mesa Thursday morning after reports of a man stuck on top of the barrier. According to an SDFD incident report, the response location was in the area of Britannia Court and Britannia Boulevard. The rescue mission was first reported at 6:50 a.m., with a fire engine, a ladder truck and an ambulance responding to the scene. José Ysea, the …

SAN DIEGO – Neither with the arrival of soldiers at the border, nor with the placement of concertina wire has managed to completely stop the attempts of irregular migration at the border. On Thursday morning a man was hooked on his clothes on the newly placed wire in Otay Mesa. “A lot of money is being used to build, again, walls that are only doing that migrants are risking their lives more when trying to get to the United States, this in a con…