SOS signs ignored

[P.C.]

This story is so gut wrenching.  How needless for this poor woman to have died.  I can't get it off my mind.  

What was going on ?  Their SOS signs were spotted, reported and ignored FOUR times !!!!

  "Given the blatant, glaring, signs of an SOS stamp in the snow, we should have called and initiated a search and rescue," said RCMP spokesman Cpl. Dan Moskaluk. "Maybe it wouldn't have been a full grounds search, but we could've taken an aerial flyby. We should've looked at the reports a little closer, a little more in depth of where the information was coming from."

 

 Moskaluk said the RCMP has launched an internal review into the response times of all the groups involved."

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[Michel]

           
 

[P.C.]

It's scary and far too sad.  She did not need to die.  They were spotted more than once, while she was still alive....and had somebody acted on it, she would still be alive.  I keep playing it over and over in my mind....how they must have felt.....what a relief it must have been when the first helicopter flew over their SOS....and then waiting, for nothing.  No help.  

[Lise]

It is a sad and tragic case and hopefully something good will come out of this so her death will not be so needless.