A person is dead and another injured after they fell off a cliff in San Pedro early Sunday morning. 

According to an alert sent out by the Los Angeles Fire Department, crews responded to Point Fermin Park on West Paseo Del Mar just before 1:45 a.m. and found one person dead near the bottom of the cliffs. 

Another individual was “in need of medical attention” and had to be rescued part-way down the cliff. 

“Firefighters set up a rope system to access, treat and remove the person,” LAFD officials stated, adding that they were taken to the hospital, however their condition was not immediately released. 

Deteriorating conditions prevented crews from recovering the deceased individual’s body right away; firefighters on the ground were performing a second land-based rope rescue to recover the body just before 3 a.m., LAFD said. 

What led to the victims falling off the cliff is not known.