LAist: Vacation Stories from Los Angeles: Search & Rescue

samkim

Wed, 07 May 2008 14:57:05 -0800

who gets to pick and choose?

thegokid

Wed, 07 May 2008 14:04:45 -0800

Odd that they don't get charged. I was flown out of the bottom of the Grand Canyon by heilcopter for a family emergency back in California and we footed the hefty bill. Now THAT was a helicopter ride.

Zach Behrens

Wed, 07 May 2008 11:45:30 -0800

Nope, no bill or charge or any exchanging of money for this service, according to the LAFD per the phone conversation last night.

benh57

Wed, 07 May 2008 11:38:10 -0800

Actually, they may well get a bill for the rescue. It's becoming common to charge for these.

Will Campbell

Wed, 07 May 2008 10:07:40 -0800

Getting lost in the Angeles National Forest at night I can imagine doesn't take much lack of common sense. Getting lost in and needing to be rescued from an urban park (albeit the largest one in the country)? Now that's some numbskullery for sure. Not that it couldn't happen to me, but if it did, I'd just hunker down for the night, hike out in the morning and keep that idiocy to myself.

Zach Behrens

Wed, 07 May 2008 09:45:23 -0800

We pay. And to that note, it's not like they did it with purpose and it's not out of the ordinary for the LAFD to do lost hiker calls (I see them come through all the time). It's just normal business in Los Angeles. Usually, lost hikers are locals who took it too far.

fac21

Wed, 07 May 2008 09:23:00 -0800

i'm glad it ended well, but who pays the bill for their stupidity?