One person is dead and at least one other is missing after large waves pounded the California coast on Monday amid a high surf warning.

According to reports from CBS News and SF Gate, first responders were called to Sunset State Beach, a state park in Watsonville, around 11:30 a.m. Monday for a report of a man trapped under debris. The Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office believes a large wave trapped him there.

The man was rescued and taken to hospital, where he reportedly later died.

The Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office did not immediately respond to a USA TODAY request for comment.

About 30 minutes south, at Marina State Beach, Marina police and firefighters responded to a water rescue incident around noon Monday, according to a news release from the Marina Police Department.

Initial reports indicate that an adult man was “overwhelmed by the high surf and dragged into the water,” police said. Bystanders tried to help the person but were unable to save him due to the large waves and strong current, police said.

Marina police said an “extensive search” was conducted with assistance from the Coast Guard and the California Highway Patrol Air Unit, and despite those efforts, the person was not located. The search was called off around 2 p.m. because “deteriorating conditions were deemed too dangerous to continue,” police said. The person’s name has not been released and the case is under investigation.

Heavy surf causes a pier in Santa Cruz to partially collapse, throwing three people into the water

On Monday, part of a pier in Santa Cruz collapsed into the Pacific Ocean, sending three city workers into the sea after high surf hit the shore.

The Wharf, a public pier, is home to several restaurants in Santa Cruz, about 70 miles south of San Francisco. The pier was evacuated shortly after 1 p.m. and closed to all emergency services

Two city workers were rescued by lifeguards and the third rescued himself, according to a report by the Salinas Californian, part of the USA TODAY Network.

City construction crews were demolishing a Wharf restaurant that had been damaged in a storm surge last December when it collapsed, witnesses told local CBS affiliate KION-TV.

The damaged section of the pier was closed to the public due to previous storm damage and no people were present at the time of the collapse.

Gabe Hauari is a nationally featured news reporter at USA TODAY. You can follow him on X @GabeHauari or email him at [email protected].

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