Gempa Bumi Sabah : Unsung Heroes

Hero yang tidak didendangkan.. Pujian kepada Malim Gunung bukan bermakna pasukan keselamatan tidak melakukan apa-apa sumbangan dalam misi SAR mangsa gempa bumi di Gunung Kinabalu. Ketika bumi Ranau masih bergegar, pasukan keselamatan mengakui tidak berani mendaki gunung atas alasan faktor keselamatan. Pasukan bomba dan penyelamat mengakui pasukan mereka tidak arif tentang selok belok di gunung Kinabalu [ Dipetik Siaran Langsung TV1 7/6/2015 ]. Walau bagaimanapun Malim Gunung bergadai nyawa sejak kejadian gempa bumi naik ke puncak untuk menyelamatkan mangsa yang terkandas. Mereka bukan pasukan penyelamat, mereka hanya Malim Gunung atau Mountain Guide. Inilah wajah-wajah Pahlawan Gunung.

Hero Jomius

Sabah quake: Mountain guides the true heroes, says Australian climber.

In a harrowing account of her escape from Mount Kinabalu, Australian hiker Vee Jin Dumlao denounced the Government emergency response as a “farce” for quoting fog as the reason for not rescuing climbers stranded on the peak.

“But the sky cleared beautifully and the air was still by 4pm, but they were determined to leave us up there overnight in cold hunger and potential flash-flooding if it rained,” said the clinical psychologist from Sydney on her Facebook page.

According to Dumlao, helicopters dropped off two boxes of supplies “over the cliffs onto inaccessible landslide rubble” instead of taking a clear shot at a huge expanse of land.

While she expressed gratitude for mountain guide Jomius, who saw her party safely down Mount Kinabalu, Dumlao slammed rescue officers who huddled in groups “sharing smokes and food that were meant for survivors.

Rescue officers were reportedly seen only at the tail end of the descent at the safe base of the mountain, with help at the critical areas only arriving nine hours later, as casualties and the injured remained unchecked on the slopes.

“Their token gestures of help by shining a torch for us or offering us bottles of water were redundant and irrelevant. Those who made it to the bottom did not need the help,” she added.

Dumlao also pointed out that a convenient helipad remain unused when it could have been used to transport rescuers to the foot of the peaks.

She heaped praise on the mountain guide “heroes”, who risked life and limb with continuing tremors and rockfalls to refill climbers’ bottles with water from the nearest hut despite suffering losses of their own.

“They formed abseiling lines with ropes and used their own bodies as safety barriers when they had to find alternative paths because the original route were decimated by rock fall.

“I witnessed guides, not emergency workers securing the injured onto stretchers which they would carry down the mountain,” said Dumlao.

She also expressed great regard for the people around Mount Kinabalu, but “little respect” for the Malaysian government, whom she deemed ultimately responsible for the management of emergency services.

Hero membawa keluar mangsa turun dari Gunung Kinabalu

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