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The article is written with an obvious slant, from the perspective of a guy who decided to go to the media to bash first responders after being asked to coordin

• lukan 2y ago
  "I would take anything he said with a huge grain of salt." I do and I did not like that reporting, but if the facts are somewhat right, the arrest threat from wanting to at least still pick up his left behind son is way over the line, of anything reasonable.
  • jquery 2y ago
    Is it? He was simply told not to fly in that area anymore. Either his son was fine in which case no big deal, or his son wasn't fine in which case he was creating more people who needed to be rescued.
    • lukan 2y ago
      The son was left there on a mission agreed with local official staff to rescue a person of greater need, which otherwise would have been needed to rescue anyway. If the local chief decides to send a free helicopter away is one thing, but then sending the father away while failing to provide another extraction is just a sign of not being able to handle the situation. Ideally, there would have been an easy process for volunteers to get involved. They might have told him to come, but with the son back at home.