Hikers criminally charged for calling SAR

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Re: Hikers criminally charged for calling SAR

Post by texasbb » September 10th, 2022, 7:29 am

drm wrote:
September 10th, 2022, 6:19 am
New Zealand has a law that SAR may not perform a rescue that puts the rescuers at risk.
Isn't that basically every rescue?

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Re: Hikers criminally charged for calling SAR

Post by drm » September 10th, 2022, 3:15 pm

texasbb wrote:
September 10th, 2022, 7:29 am
drm wrote:
September 10th, 2022, 6:19 am
New Zealand has a law that SAR may not perform a rescue that puts the rescuers at risk.
Isn't that basically every rescue?
I think SAR always makes that call of course, but I think in NZ it is a law and as I said, implemented more conservatively.

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