Sunday, December 17, 2006

Confusion can be deadly

The Oregonian, in its Sunday edition, reports that confusion and communication gaps hurt the search for the missing Kim family.

The story suggests that an inexperienced emergency services coordinator made some major mistakes. It adds that the undersherrif who was behind the mic at the press conferences declined to take a call from the emergency services coordinator because he was watching an OSU football game on TV.

These are just some of the problems. It's nice to see this kind of reporting, which will hopefully avoid these kinds of mishaps in the future.

I'm still digesting the lengthy story so I'm short on commentary at the moment.

Read it here.

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