Posted on 01/04/2019 6:59:44 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
A visitor at Yosemite National Park reportedly fell to his death on Christmas Day, and the incident went unreported until now due to the ongoing government shutdown, a National Park Service spokesman said.
“The incident remains under investigation, which is taking longer than usual because of the shutdown,” Andrew Muñoz, a public affairs officer for the National Park Service, told Outside Magazine Thursday. “A news release wasn’t issued because of the shutdown. We aren’t releasing more details.”
NPS representatives did not respond to HuffPost’s requests for comment. (The NPS has said media lines would also be impacted by the shutdown.)
Muñoz told Outside Magazine’s Wes Siler that dispatchers at the Yosemite National Park Emergency Communications Center received a 911 call on the afternoon of Dec. 25 “regarding a male park visitor with a head injury above Nevada Fall.”
“Rangers were on scene in less than an hour and the visitor was removed from the water,” Muñoz said. “Medical attention was provided to the visitor, but he died from his injuries. The visitor was not in a closed area.”
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
But the injured party received medical attention within an hour of his accident.
The Yahoo! comments are running about 100% against such a blatant, stupid attempt to gin up hostility to the shutdown.
The Yahoo! comments are running about 100% against such a blatant, stupid attempt to gin up hostility to the shutdown.
No doubt the victim would be less dead had this been reported in a timely manner.
Yahoo? Someone goes there? Guess I’ll re-activate my aol account. LOL! How about myspace? Anyone?
I’ll re-up my earthlink account.
Another article:
It sounds like each fell to their deaths and nothing could have prevented it, so really it has nothing to do with the parks being unmanned.
“At the Glen Canyon National Park in Arizona, the 14-year-old girl fell from the Horseshoe Bend Overlook on Christmas Eve, the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office confirmed.
Later on Christmas Day in Yosemite National Park in California, a man died after he slipped down a long, granite hill and fell into a river, injuring his head, according to the Associated Press.
A third person died Thursday of this week, when high winds caused a tree to fall over on top of a woman and her 6-year-old son in Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee, the AP reported. The woman died and her son broke his leg in the accident”
;-) That reminds me that my dialup subscription is due.
Didn’t nature boy sex poodle Veep Al Gore Junior get his own self lost in the woods while BJ Clinton was in the White House?
Dead is dead.
Yahoo and Huffpo
Two pillars journalistic integrity /s
People die at Yosemite every year. 40 years ago There were signs at especially dangerous areas that read, “STAY ON THE TRAIL AS DEATHS HAVE OCCURRED HERE”.
My father-in-law is a bit of a tight wad. He had dial-up up to around four years ago. We would send him something like a family photo and it would take fifteen minutes to download.
Oh no!
The 200 Democrat federal employees at the Park death reporting center weren’t there to shuffle papers!
Oh dear! A mishap was UNREPORTED???
An opportunity to somehow blame President Trump WASTED for an entire WEEK???
Whatever will we do???
Morons.
I knew a guy a few years ago that still used an Earth-Link email account.
Taking a selfie on the edge of a cliff??
I guess it worked alright back in the day. My kids called it “earthstink.”
Unless this guy was a relative, I don’t think I care. I’ve been to Yosemite and there are so many places to fall my guess is that deaths go unreported often.
Certainly, ‘tis isn’t going to sway my mind about the shut down.
I wish Pelosi and Schumer would do something to end the shutdown. It would be so easy for them.
Exactly. We are paying a steep price for slow reporting, aren’t we? Think how much better your life would be if you knew this news a week earlier.
I wonder if they failed to notify next of kin for a week, too.
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