The bunker that tumbled 200 feet onto a San Francisco beach was sitting on the edge of a rain-saturated cliff before it fell.
A WW II bunker was photographed in December 2022, sitting on the edge of the cliffs above San Francisco’s Fort Funston. The bunker fell onto the beach on Jan. 16, 2023; there were no injuries.at San Francisco's Fort Funston was sitting on the edge of a rain-saturated cliff before it fell Monday.
San Francisco resident Sandy Weil told SFGATE she takes regular walks on the beach and noticed that the bunker appeared to be on the verge of falling. In December, she took a photo, seen above, and included it in a Dec. 12 email to the National Park Service. “I've been walking at Ft Funston for many years," Weil wrote in the email that she shared with SFGATE."I'm very concerned about a leftover concrete bunker / gun station, not sure what it was exactly used for in the past that is at the edge of a cliff area. This could come down the cliff on to unsuspected people walking on the beach below.”
Weil told SFGATE that she did not receive a response."It has been at the edge of the bluff for years. I just couldn’t take it anymore," Weil said. A World War II structure tumbled an estimated 200 feet down a cliffside onto Fort Funston Beach in San Francisco, the San Francisco Fire Department confirmed.with few breaks for about three weeks. No one was injured. San Francisco Fire Department spokesperson Jonathan Baxter told SFGATE on Monday that the battery bunker fell amid a landslide.
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