Originally Posted By: Nomad
The article said ". He said that he was responding to a 911 from SPOT but had no clue the situation or location of the victim. "


More often than not, media reports will be wrong about some of the details we need to assess what really happened.

Wanna hear my best gut feeling guestimate based on insufficient and inaccurate media reports? [rant] The sheriff did not put much confidence into the location coordinates from SPOT and was in his mind making a "unknown situation in an unknown location" mission plan to deal with it. [/rant]