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Sunday, June 7, 2015

IT WAS A FARCE: If not for heroic guides, we would have died - quake victim slams govt officials

IT WAS A FARCE: If not for heroic guides, we would have died - quake victim slams govt officials
KUALA LUMPUR - An Australian woman who survived the Kinabalu earthquake has condemned members of the official rescue teams, and praised the heroic efforts of the mountain guides who helped victims down the mountain.
In an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, clinical psychologist Vee Jin Dumlao said she and other stranded climbers had to wait nine hours for help, even though the fog had dispersed.
She said the government rescue effort was a farce, and had it not been for guides travelling with her group, they may not have made it out, 9 News television reported.
“The sky cleared beautifully and the air was still by 4pm, but they were determined to leave us up there overnight in cold hunger and potential flash-flooding if it rained,” she wrote on her Facebook page.
On Nine News, she was quoted as saying: “It was decided that even though the tremors were still continuing, they were not as strong and we just had to take the risk and make our way down the mountain with the guides’ help.”
Dumlao wrote that “the mountain guides were the heroes. They risked life and limb and made some difficult decisions that ultimately saved our lives, and had neither help nor recognition from the authorities.”
“They formed abseiling lines with ropes and used their own bodies as safety barriers when they had to find alternative paths because the original route were decimated by rock fall. I witnessed guides, not emergency workers, securing the injured on stretchers which they would carry down the mountain,” said Dumlao.
She said she had “little respect” for the Malaysian government, as being responsible for emergency services.
A helipad remain unused when it could have been used to transport rescuers to the foot of the peaks, she said, and helicopters dropped off two boxes of supplies which went “over the cliffs onto inaccessible landslide rubble” even though there was a clear shot at a huge expanse of land, she said.
Rescue officers huddled in groups “sharing smokes and food that were meant for survivors” and were seen only towards the tail end of the descent.
“Their token gestures of help by shining a torch for us or offering us bottles of water were redundant and irrelevant. Those who made it to the bottom did not need the help,” she added. - FMT

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