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September 3rd, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Royal Flying Doctors spokeswoman Joanne Hill said the two were flown to Darwin because the trip to Perth was too long.
“Ideally the two would have gone to Perth but we needed to stabilise them,” she said.
Ms Hill said the runners were injured at about 5pm on Friday and had to wait four hours for the alarm to be raised. They then had the 100km journey – mostly on unsealed roads – to Kununurra Hospital before the Royal Flying Doctor Service could take them to Darwin.
They arrived at about 4am.
Royal Darwin Hospital spokesman Robin Osborne said they would be looked after before being sent south. Darwin did not have a specialist burns unit, unlike Perth, Sydney or Melbourne.
“We can treat people up to a certain level of burn,” he said. The victims were also sent south because after the Bali bombing it was found people with serious burns needed to be around family and friends to help with ongoing care.
Ms Pitt was scheduled to fly to Sydney and Ms Sanderson to Melbourne last night.
The mass evacuation from the ultramarathon came as a WA Police arson squad detective and FESA fire investigator travelled to the scene yesterday to determine the source of the blaze, amid fears it might have been deliberately lit.
The Sunday Territorian understands that authorities advised organisers it would be safe to proceed with the race, despite hundreds of small scrub fires burning throughout the course.
The Kimberley Ultramarathon event, staged by Hong Kong-based adventure company Racing The Planet, was to have been run by 41 competitors over 100km of rugged outback between Kununurra, the Gibb River Road and El Questro Wilderness Park.
Ms Pitt, who hails from Ulladulla, on the New South Wales south coast and is now based in Kununurra as a mining engineer with Argyle Diamonds, and Ms Sanderson, from the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, were on their first Racing The Planet challenge.
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