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Search And Rescue Service Stopped After Lawsuit
British Columbia's Golden and District Search and Rescue Society has stopped its service due to a lawsuit filed by a skier last month. The lawsuit, filed by Gilles Blackburn, claims the society didn't do enough to save him and his wife after they became lost on Feb. 15. Gilles wife died of hypothermia on their seventh day in the wilderness. The society is concerned about the government's lack of legal support in the incident. Chris Duffy, acting executive director of the PEP, said the province will cover volunteers for liability, but the search-and-rescue societies are a separate legal entity, and therefore responsible for getting their own coverage. "There's a lot of concern over this and a lot of focus on it because it is a first and we want to explore what the gaps and risks are out of this and inform the wider search-and-rescue community to make sure that everyone has the coverages that they need," he said. The moral of the story: Don't get lost in British Columbia.
You all got this worng, very worng. The couple wrote S.O.S in the snow. Somone saw it and reported it, but the idiot trough it was a hoax because no one was reported missing. It took them 3 reporting of the SOS to finaly start research. by the time they found them, the women have die from hypothermy.
He is right about sueing the idiots who let his wife die in the cold.