Two women in Florida spent Christmas at the bottom of a quarry before being rescued the following morning on Thursday, Dec. 26. The Citrus County Fire Rescue responded to an emergency call after the women fell nearly 50 feet into the quarry on Wednesday, Dec. 25.

Two women plummeted into a “cavernous” golf course quarry on Christmas and weren’t discovered until the next day, according to rescuers in Florida. They survived but were hospitalized after a complex rescue staged early Thursday, Dec. 26, in the Lecanto area of Citrus County, first responders said in a news release.

On Christmas Day, two women found themselves in a harrowing situation after falling about 50 feet into a quarry in central Florida.

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It's probably not the way they wanted to spend their Christmas Eve. Citrus Country Fire Rescue in Florida reported that two women were stranded overnight but found safely Christmas morning after they fell about 50 feet off a cliff at Black Diamond Ranch's Quarry Course on Thursday in Lecanto,

Photos from rescuers where two women fell into Florida golf course quarry

Citrus County Fire Rescue said the fall took place on Christmas Day but went unreported until the next morning.