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Accident on Bunny Buckets on Sunday 13-Jun-2013 At 3:17:45 AM trog

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On 12/06/2013 Wendy wrote:
>the french had a policy of free for genuine need, charging otherwise when
>I was over there.Which I'm sure is a highly debatable line, and I have
>no idea how they sorted it out. But there were a lot of rescues when I
>was there as well, partly because there are just a lot of people out there
>and it is a higher risk environment. But I'm sure also because people got
>themselves out of their depths in the same way as happens over here.
>
>The Blueys air rescue service is pretty amazing. I'm not sure that the
>Vic air ambo service is that good for difficult rescues.

I'm pretty sure on the Italian side there was a much stricter charge for unnecessary rescue, but the french side sounded free. Didn't test that out ourselves, but no-one we talked to that had been rescued (without injury) had been charged

Yep, people get caught out for all sorts of reasons, everywhere. But it did feel like many people assumed a heli rescue was a given over there. I don't reckon that's the case in the Blueys... could be wrong.