Uhm, that post states:
“How far away was your deputy?” the park ranger asked.
“Well, we cancelled him. Do you want us to go ahead and send him back in?” the 911 operator replied.
So, it was 911 that cancelled a police deputy and not the ranger. What is a police car going to do on the beach besides get stuck?
Should the ranger have called for a full blown search and rescue when all he was given was:
“The incident we have is going on at the National Parks Service,” the 911 operator informed an Assateague Park ranger. “An emergency button was pushed to OnStar on a vehicle that’s a Hummer somewhere out there and they gave us coordinates, but we have no idea where this is.”
Almost all (but this one) beach emergencies are a stuck truck. Should he respond to all such calls in the future as if it was this one? Go back and read shaggy's (or whatever his new name is) about what the ranger's life is normally like at this specific park.
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