Santa Clara County firefighters spent more than two hours Wednesday night rescuing a man whose car plunged down an embankment in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The accident happened shortly after 9 p.m. on Aldercroft Heights Road and Locust Drive in unincorporated Los Gatos. “The vehicle was about 50 feet down an embankment at a near vertical slope,” Santa Clara County Fire Department spokeswoman Luisa Rapport. “The car was nose-down and was being held up by a tree.” The rescue operation was a tricky one. “Our crews had to lower themselves and their extraction equipment down,” Rapport said. “The angle of the embankment and the fact that it required extraction equipment made it particularly challenging.” Crews using “jaws of life” equipment spent more than two hours extracting the unidentified male victim, who was taken to a local hospital with moderate injuries.