Several Trapped After Scaffolding Collapses In Central California

PISMO BEACH (CBS SF) -- Several people were trapped and injured after scaffolding collapsed at a construction site in Pismo Beach on Tuesday.

It happened around 11:30 a.m. in the 200 block of Harloe Avenue.

According to Cal Fire, five people were hurt, two of them critically.

In a Tweet the agency said, "patients have been rescued and being transported to [the] "patients have been rescued and being transported to [the] hospital."

Nearby residents told KCOY television that workers were there to repair the cliff side after it sustained heavy damage during the recent rains.