A Border Patrol officer is being credited for quick thinking after coming to the aid of two teenage girls found exhausted and struggling in the raging surf below Sunset Cliffs on April 1. The teens, ages 17 and 18, were spotted around 3 p.m. in the water near a rocky, largely inaccessible area known as Pappy’s Point, according to Sgt. John Everhart with the Ocean Beach station of San Diego Lifeguard Services. A 911 call sent rescuers in motion both from the beach and from a vessel, but high surf conditions immediately prevented lifeguards from reaching the teenagers, said Everhart. The unnamed Border Patrol agent was somehow able to assist the injured girls close enough to the shoreline that lifeguards, firefighters and paramedics could use a stretcher with a rope system to lift the teenagers to safety on the cliffs above, Everhart said. Both teens were evaluated by firefighters and paramedics after the girls were battered against the reefs below by the high surf. One of the victims was released after declining further medical attention, while the second was transported to the University of California, San Diego Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries, Everhart said. It was not clear whether the teens had simply been swimming or had jumped from the cliffs, he said. It was also unclear whether alcohol played a role in the incident, said Everhart.