The end of the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf in California fell into the ocean on Monday during a repair project.Winter storms had previously damaged the end of the wharf, which was undergoing a $4 million project to fix the damages.In all, about 150 feet at the end of the wharf was destroyed, officials said. This includes the Dolphin Restaurant and a restroom. Santa Cruz police confirmed with sister station KSBW that three people were on the wharf when it collapsed. Two of them had to be rescued, and the last person got out of the water on their own. Minor injuries were reported. The wharf was promptly evacuated. “We had our engineer, our engineering team and our wharf crew on-site monitoring minute by minute,” said a city official Matt Huffaker. “We made the decision that based on our forecasting models, it would be safe to do so today with constant …
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