A 5-year-old girl remains missing along the Big Sur coast after a wave pulled her and her family into the ocean on Friday, the Monterey County Sheriff's Office said on Saturday.

The search for the girl was momentarily suspended at 9 p.m. Friday due to weather and lighting conditions, but the sheriff's office resumed the search on Saturday, along with several other agencies, with the help of a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter.

The sheriff's office is asking drivers on Highway 1 not to stop at Garrapata State Beach so emergency crews have space to conduct their search.

The girl was pulled into the ocean at Garrapata State Beach, north of Rocky Point Restaurant, around 1 p.m. by a wave that was possibly 15 to 20 feet high, the sheriff's office said.

Her father went into the water to try an

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