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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can't make myself watch. The rescue agencies just left those people there to die. [/quote]

That’s not exactly true. The doc explains this. [/quote]

I just watched it and it seems like that’s exactly what happened.[/quote]

My takeaway was that the island was more than an hour away by boat, and the fumes from the volcano made the airspace dangerous.  It was heroic of the men who flew there to power through and take the risk with their helicopter and plane, but it’s not like the authorities were completely indifferent to the tragedy that was unfolding.  I’m open to a different perspective, but that’s the picture that was painted for me in the doc.[/quote]

I’m just going off what I saw in the documentary but the officials just seemed completely unprepared and uncoordinated. It was shocking to me that they lived in sight of a recently active volcano and had no basic response procedures for how they would communicate and act in the event of a disaster. I kept wanting to yell at the screen - didn’t you all know this could happen?![/quote]Yes, and the tour operators didn’t seem to have any training or prep for this scenario. The woman on her honeymoon asked what happens if there’s an eruption, and they had no answer for her. How were they allowed to operate without any kind of plan in place?[/quote]

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