SONOMA COUNTY, Calif. - Rescuers in Sonoma County saved an injured man and a drowning child from two separate beaches on Sunday.

Sonoma County Fire District rescuers were sent about 12:50 p.m. to Wrights Beach on reports of a man who suffered a broken leg after being struck by a wave, according to a department statement .

A Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office helicopter was called to the scene and lifted the man to a nearby ambulance, who took him to a hospital for treatment.

A short time later, fire department units were called to Schoolhouse Beach – a little over two miles south of Wrights Beach – on reports of a 9-year-old girl struggling in the ocean after having been washed from the beach by a large wave, the Sonoma County Fire District told KTVU.

The fire department said that the

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