WESTMINSTER – A Westminster police corporal and a California Highway Patrol officer helped rescue a man from hanging himself from an overpass on the San Diego (405) Freeway Monday.

Westminster police received several 911 calls just after 12:30 p.m. about a man in his 30s standing on the freeway’s Springdale Street overpass, Westminster police said.

The corporal and the CHP officer arrived a few minutes later to see the man outside of a six-foot-high fence of the overpass, police said. When the man spotted the officers, he jumped off the overpass with the noose around his neck, police said.

The two officers, with help from a civilian, reached through the fence

and pulled the man up enough to keep the noose from suffocating him, police said.

Additional officers later arrived and got the man out of the noose and held on to him until Orange County Fire Authority firefighters reached him with a ladder and brought him down to safety, police said.

The man was taken to a hospital.