A man was injured after falling from the base of the Oceanside Pier to the large rocks below Sunday night, a fire department official said. The man fell shortly after 9 p.m., Oceanside Fire Battalion Chief Jeremy Brandt said. Crews were on scene within four minutes. He fell onto rocks piled on the s and and was not in the water. Firefighters had to place the man in a Stokes basket — essentially a stretcher in a hard casing — to hoist him up from the rocks, he said. Within 10 minutes, the man was off the rocks and in an ambulance. “The crews were working very efficiently,” Brandt said. He said the man was subsequently airlifted to a trauma center. No further information was immediately available regarding the incident or the man’s condition. ...read more read less