In reply to elcid: Who d'ye think the local press are going to try and call?
And do you honestly reckon that even in Spain, that John Grieve (or any other MRTTL for that matter) will not know when there is a job of this magnitude going on on their area of responsibility?
Even though he wasnt in Glencoe at the time, he may have been helping out remotely.
Also, a lot of the MRT's call their members out by Text message nowadays, so he could well have found out initially that way.