RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                           MORNING REPORT

Attention: Directorate
           Regional and Park Chief Rangers, USPP, BIFC, FLETC
           CC: RAD Information Net

Day/date:  Thursday, May 11, 1989

INCIDENTS

89-59 - Kenai Fjords/Katmai/Aniakchak/Lake Clark - Follow-up on Oil Spill

Overview - The weather from lower Kenai Peninsula to the Katmai coast has
been severe, with gale warnings, winds at 45 knots with gusts to 65 knots,
and 20 foot seas. The outlook through Friday is for calmer winds and 5 foot
seas.

More than 250 people have worked or are currently working for the region
either full-time or part-time on the spill response. The cost to date for
this effort is about $2.1 million. The estimated cost for the remainder of
the fiscal year is an additional $2.5 million. Personnel are now being
brought in from throughout the NPS to work on the spill response. A video
briefing on the Katmai coastal situation for WASO and other parties should
be available next week. It is being prepared in Kodiak by Jim Boyd from
Albright FDC.

Tort claims investigators are assembling their final reports in Seward. The
Kodiak incident command post will be moved to a larger location this week.
IC team members have worked out of two hotel rooms since early last month.

Kenai Fjords - The Coast Guard reports that there are 28 vessels in the area
of Kenai Fiords collecting oil. There are also 29 boats collecting birds,
five recovering otters and two with emergency medical personnel aboard. An
Exxon helicopter crew reported on the 9th that areas of oil remain along the
coast from the Aialik Peninsula on the north side to Gore Point on the south
end of the park's coast. On the 8th, Exxon reported that there was a light
sheen in Montague strait, the exit from Prince William Sound.

Katmai - Skimming operations occurred in Kukak Bay on the 9th, and beach
cleanup has begun in Hallo Bay. The on-shore work is being supported by a
40-foot landing craft. An NPS representative is accompanying Exxon's
Shoreline Cleanup Advisory Team (SCAT) to Shaw Island of the park's north
coast.

Aniakchak - Oil remains offshore of the park, but none has yet come ashore.

Lake Clark - No oil has vet been seen on the park's coast.

FIRE ACTIVITY

1) FTRE SITUATION

a) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

* Tamiami Fire - Everglades - 850 acres:

The fire is now 50% contained; full containment was predicted for 8 p.m.
last night, and control by 8 p.m. tonight. There are still smoldering,
unburned fuels adjacent to the line and beneath the algae mat in sawgrass
areas. There are 75 people currently working on the fire, including one 19-
person Forest Service crew from Chattahoochee NF. The remaining
firefighters are from Everglades, Rig Cypress and Biscayne. Estimated cost
to date is $60,000. Demobilization was to begin last night if all proceeded
according to plan. The weather continues to be hot and dry.

* Oak Spring Fire - Big Bend - 300+ acres:

A dry lightning storm passing through the park on the afternoon of the 9th
ignited at least six fires. The largest is near Oak Spring in the Chisos
Mountains, which is the primary water source for the Basin developed area.
One crew has been assigned to that fire, and there are squads of NPS
firefighters on each of two other fires - Ash Spring (10 acres) and Rosillos
17 acres). Lack of aircraft and inaccessible terrain prevented initial
attack on the remaining three fires, all of which are an acre or less in
size, but. the park hoped to have them staffed, by noon yesterday. A
helicopter has also been ordered. The state wildlife refuge which borders
the park has two large wildfires burning at the present time, and there are
two 50,000 acre plus fires burning just south of the park in Mexico.

b) OTHER AGENCY

There is no NIFCC report this morning.

(Report on Tamiami Fire from Scott Erickson, CR, EVER via Steve Smith, SERO,
and Judi Zuckert, BFM, NPS, Boise; report on Oak Spring Fire from Judi
Zuckert, with supplemental information from CRO, BIBE).

STAFF STATUS

Hodapp in Rocky Mountain at resource threats workshop, Butts at North
Atlantic region chief rangers' conference on Cape Cod, Ringgold en route to
North Atlantic chief rangers' conference, Loach in Taos at ARPA conference,
Farabee in Mew Orleans at NASAR conference.

Prepared by WASO Division of Ranger Activities

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