[pct-l] Cost of a SAR airlift

[Clifford McDonald]

A Call To Be Better Prepared
The State of New Hampshire has the power to bill people for the cost of a
rescue if it is determined the hiker was negligent, which can mean not
having adequate gear or venturing out despite weather warnings. Julie
Horgan, an experienced hiker from Milton, was billed $7,000 when she was
rescued atop Mount Jackson last March after losing her way when blowing snow
covered the trail. Horgan, who is in her early 60s, was dressed
appropriately and was able to survive a night in zero-degree temperatures
and 50-mile-an-hourwinds near the 4,000-foot summit.

Full story from Boston Globe at :
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/06/24/iphones-can-save-hikers-from-dan
ger-and-put-them/8K3qj5zu3RJh87wlzDmZLI/story.html

-----Original Message-----
From: pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net [mailto:pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net]
On Behalf Of Brick Robbins
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 4:52 PM
To: pct-l at backcountry.net
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Cost of a SAR airlift

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:13 AM,  <abiegen at cox.net> wrote:
> 1, Air Rescue by CalFire to their Hemet base - $0.00 - They treated it as
a training mission.

CalFire is a government organization and the taxpayers paid for your
airlift. It doesn't really matter how they did the accounting (Training,
whatever). Ron Paul and his crowd would call this "socialism."

Should the taxpayers have to pick this up or should we all have rescue
insurance as they do in Europe?

And those that don't choose to purchase insurance should be left to die or
rely solely on non governmental good Samaritans, as it was their choice by
not purchasing insurance?

This is a real question there are forces pushing our government that
direction, and we should really decide if that is the direction we want to
go.


The medical treatment after the rescue is a different issue.
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