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sted Today, 05:08 PM I have to add something! First.... I'm super happy they weren't hurt worse than they were. I monitor a "scanner" when I'm at Dumont and happened to be listening when the Air flight was trying to get patient information while in bound @ 21 minutes out. I heard them ask three times for a patient up date. 21 minutes out, 5 minutes out and 4 minutes out. The radio communication was horrible and the Rangers/Sheriff didn't appear to be able to hear the aircraft. I heard it fine with my scanner. I'm not positive but I don't think the medic got the info he had been requesting until Flight was on the ground. Not good if they are to be prepared to treat a victim before they arrive especially if there is a critical injury. Since they didn't do a "Hot Load", meaning the injury was critical and they rush to get off the ground to beat the "Golden Hour" to the medical facility, I had to assume that the gentleman and his daughter were going to be OK. What hurts me is that I am "Cop Friendly" and had a very close friend that used to be assigned to Dumont from the Needles Office of BLM. No more and I don't know why. If I had to give the majority of law enforcement a review for their service this Presidents weekend I would score them about a 4 or 5 out of 10. There have been so many negative changes in the last 2 years I just don't know where Dumont is headed but I am just about ready to tell BLM that I would never again purchase a yearly pass with holidays. No more discount for early purchase, non support of the annual Clean Up....etc.....etc.....etc. Another point. Who is running Dumont now? The San Bernardino Sheriffs Office or BLM. Any chance BLM is monitoring DDR for input, I doubt it!! At least Larry Blaine used to work for us and look at our site since he understood that Dumont furnished most or at least a good portion of their operating budget. Oh, since I'm on a roll. Why and the hell can't they hire a grader operator that knows what they are doing. I watched a grader operator spend over an hour trying to cover up a "Worm" right next to our camp site. Also why in the Hell can't they grade and water down the entrance road a couple of days before Friday for those of us that purchase yearly passes and have to drive in on a road that is a 10 or 15 MPH road but the Friday people can cruise in at 25 plus MPH? For those that saw a post I made a while back that I wrote an e-mail to the State Of California person in charge of Dumont......I never got any reply! Yup Terry, no response as you predicted. I better sign off now as I am getting so worked up on what is going on with Dumont and a lot of other off road areas that we should be entitled to use without all the B.S. Time for a drink! I'm fed up with what is going on at Dumont!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Edited by sandawg, Today, 05:21 PM. LIFE'S JOURNEY TO THE GRAVE SHOULDN'T BE WITH THE INTENTION OF ARRIVING IN A WELL PRESERVED BODY, BUT RATHER TO SKID IN BROADSIDE, THOROUGHLY USED UP, TOTALLY WORN OUT, AND LOUDLY SHOUTING, HOLY SH*T.....WHAT A RIDE !