I just can't help but wonder about that: did liberal political correctness (Portland is very liberal) cost James Kim his life?
The included article from San Fran Chron outlines events pretty well, as far as I can tell.
I just can't help but wonder about that: did liberal political correctness (Portland is very liberal) cost James Kim his life?
The included article from San Fran Chron outlines events pretty well, as far as I can tell.
ping for your Oregon list
"The Ineptness of James Kim." is a much more appropriate Title.
Michelle Malkin bump!
Thank you for following the rules
I have to wonder who they're protecting by placing the blame at the feet of the Josephine County....
I have a friend whose son was born brain damaged because a doctor failed to show up in the delivery room 45 years ago for a similar reason. They were the first people in the Bay Area to successfully sue a doctor in such a case.
Why am I surprised. The military as well as some special private companies have heat seeking equipment and can detect a dear in the forest. Where is this equipment? Same place as almost everything that could be used is. We have a political system built of the dumbest of the dumb, and don't expect anything important to be added to the search and rescue teams. Too busy filling their pockets to do anything meaningful.
Sheriff preferring to watch football instead of call to action didn't help, did it?
80% of Oregon is as conservative as can be. If it wasn't for the overwhelming concentrations of liberal in a few key spots, it would be like Idaho. Josephine county is red.
Did the report ALSO mention that while there MIGHT have been some breakdowns- that at least SOMEONE WAS LOOKING for Kim? Or did they just malign all those who risked theirl ives looking for kim- criticising their efforts when the reporters did NOTHING? Cripes- http://sacredscoop.com
Sure, blame the rescue team, when this guy never should have left the car to begin with.
Without pointing any fingers...
I learned one thing from the Kim episode.
At the very least...
Buy and keep a PLB (Personal Locator Beacon) and some spare batteries
in the vehicle or on my person if I ever go someplace I might not
be able to exit on my own power.
It could be the best extra 12 ounces a person every hauled into the wilderness.
http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/links/link.jsp;jsessionid=KZ0UT4FWEU14ICWQNWRCCOAK0BW0GIWE?id=0029764516802a&type=product&cmCat=search&returnPage=search-results1.jsp&QueryText=personal+locator+beacon&N=4887&Ntk=Products&Ntx=mode+matchall&Nty=1&Ntt=personal+locator+beacon&noImage=0
In the Kim's case, two PLBs would be good...if you have to split up
and try to go for help.
Must we nitpick everything. It seems as all media is just a big gossip whore house with fingers pointing at others. Trying to place blame.
...one feisty little Lady!
James Kim was supposedly a techie geek. I can't believe he didn't have a GPS in his car and on his person. No self repsecting techie geek would go anywhere without one. A word to the wise... anyone who wants to take an adventure in the cascades had better take along a gps and a ham radio and lots of batteries.
More can, I think, be stated with respect to the performance of search and rescue, or more specifically with respect to its chain of command. For one thing we have more information, and for another we know with fair certainty what the participants did not. Hindsight isn't actually 20/20 at all, and it's not fair to assume that a newspaper article has captured the viewpoint of the person in the situation, but it's usually better than that if we can manage to keep impatience and emotion out of judgment.
The difficulties faced by the regional command seem to me to be twofold - first in recognizing and employing the full range of assets available, and second through tenth communication, communication, communication. A SAR setup the size normally available in that part of Oregon is usually limited in terms of funding and hence training as well, one manifestation of which is that the lady in charge found herself missing one vital piece of information because she was in the field trying not to vomit when it came to her. She shouldn't have been there but was because she was used to using herself as one of a limited number of assets and was, in consequence, less able to utilize those that were really available in this case - the National Guard FLIR assets, for example.
But it was the communications breakdown - it nearly always is in operations of this type - that really prevented a timely rescue. The data were there in the hands of private citizens and contractors but the system was incapable of transmitting them to a decision-making authority. The cell-phone tower data, for example. The data on footprints, however incomplete. All of this either sat because it had no further means of transmission or was lost in the confusion by lack of prioritization. Here I believe we have a primary training issue.
Mr. Kim was a brave and unfortunate man who went down swinging for his family and for that he has my admiration. A proper legacy for this is, in my opinion, that people who care so very much for his case should stop shouting at one another and that the media should stop couching this sort of breakdown in terms of blame and start suggesting a means to remediate the shortcomings that seem to have been identified.
James Kim is seen with his children, Penelope (L) and Sabine (in arms), in an undated photo provided by the Oregon State Police. REUTERS/Oregon State Police/Handout
PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR Stranded: The James Kim Ordeal. Transcript
HELLER: This is where Mr. Kim ended up burning the tires of his vehicle. He burnt that for the heat, initially. They wanted to create smoke to try to get a smoke column to attract attention to themselves.
GRIFFIN (on camera): He burns the tires. Nobody comes. Now he's out of tires. The vehicle is not moving, and he thinks his only way to save his family is to leave his family.