A sad story has emerged from Sitka along this topic. This past week Molly Allgren (sp) an EMT was killed when the rescue boat she was in hit a rock and she sustained a fatal head injury. Molly was a Professor at local college and much involved in the community. They had been called out to medivac a state trooper trainee who was participating in the wilderness survival part of their curriculum on an island off the Sitka coast. As the story now unfolds it seems the medivac was unnecesary. The trainee had badly cut his thumb but the first aid rendered on the scene had stopped the bleeding. The rescue call came at night and the conditions were bad. Rain and wind. Also this is a tricky area for power boaters in daylight. Lots of rocks and shoals. The conscencious is this rescue could have waited till morning and not placed the recuers at risk. Currently they are investigating why the decision was made to do the medivac. In the mean time I hope it will make us all paddle a little safer to stay out of trouble and make a good assesment of our perdicament before we call for help. Bob *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sat Dec 04 2004 - 12:34:11 PST
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