re: #217 McSpiff

Its important to note that the first rule of emergency response is ‘Your safety first’. Dead or injured medical personel help no one. Same thing with life guarding, going into an accident scene or collapsed building. Many EMTs can tell stories about being able to see and hear someone without being able to safely reach them. Without being there, I can’t comment on how threatened they felt, but I heard of horror stories long before the quake about Haitian gangs.

While there is some truth to what you say, the bottom line is that Sanjay Gupta was there with his crew all night long, and into the next morning, incident free.

I’m with Lt. Gen. Russell Honore on this one - people are afraid of the poor.