Person rescued after falling down bluff along Mississippi River in Minneapolis

A person was rescued Wednesday after falling down a bluff along the Mississippi River in Minneapolis.

The Minneapolis Fire Department said rescue crews were called to a bluff near 43rd Avenue and West River Parkway South after a mother and child found the victim and called 911.

After they arrived at the scene, crews found the mother and child assisting the victim, who was suffering from a lower leg injury.

Crews used a rope and pulley system to lower the victim down the bluff to an MFD boat, which then took the victim to paramedics waiting at the University of Minnesota boat launch.

Rescue personnel also helped the two good Samaritans back up the bluff as it was too steep to climb, according to MFD.