RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                       MORNING REPORT

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

Day/date: Tuesday, June 19, 1990

INCIDENTS

90-117 - Death Valley (California) - Follow-up on Methamphetamine Lab

Three park rangers returned to the lab site in the vicinity of Saratoga
Springs to check for tracks after receiving information that other vehicles
might have been in the area. They found one vehicle leaving the site and
subsequently made two arrests for possession of weapons, methamphetamines
and methamphetamine manufacturing equipment. A pickup truck has also been
impounded. (Ed Rothfuss, Superintendent, DEVA, via CompuServe message from
Herb Gercke, RAD/WRO, 6/18).

90-139 - Herbert Hoover (Iowa) - Flooding

During the past weekend, the park suffered flooding on three separate
occasions as the result of heavy rains which fell throughout the area. Most
of the park was underwater at one point. Several park residences and one of
the historic buildings suffered damage to their basements, and the park's
maintenance shop had over two and a half feet of standing water in it.
Several vehicles were also damaged. Damage estimates are pending. (Kurt
Topham, CR, HEHO, via CompuServe message from Capt. J.J. McLaughlin,
RAD/MWRO, 6/18).

90-140 - Lake Mead (Nevada) - Fatality

The body of 56-year-old L.W. of Kingman, Arizona, was found
floating in Cottonwood Cove on the 17th. The body was retrieved, and
investigators determined that Whitehead apparently died from a gunshot to
the head. An investigation into the circumstances of his death are
underway. This is the park's tenth fatality so far this year. (Lila
Roybal, LAME, via CompuServe message from Herb Gercke, RAD/WRO, 6/18).

90-141 - Haleakala (Hawaii) - Accident with Multiple Injuries

A tour van crossed the center line of the park road and collided head-on
with a tour bus coming from the opposite direction on the 16th. Six
passengers from the van and three from the bus were hospitalized at Maui
Medical Hospital, with the most serious injury incurred by the van operator.
All the injured were Japanese visitors. (Karen Newton, HALE, via CompuServe
message from Herb Gercke, RAD/WRO, 6/18).

90-142 - Colorado NM (Colorado) - Fatality

On Saturday, June 16th, E.C., 28, of Grand Junction, Colorado,
joined some friends in a campout a mile east of Cold Shivers Point on
Rimrock Drive. The group built a fire, cooked hot dogs and drank beer.
Around 8:30 on Sunday morning, E.C. was showing his friends how he could
jump over the bonfire when he inadvertently landed in the fire, then kept
going and fell over the edge of the cliff, landing 100 feet below. Rangers
responded and administered first aid, but without success. E.C.'s blood
alcohol level was later determined to be .169. (Hank Schock, CR, OOIM, via
telephone report from Capt. T.J. McDonnell, RAD/RMRO, 6/18).

FIRE ACTIVITY

1) FIRE SITUATION - Preparedness Level I

No large fire activity nationally. Most geographic areas have low
to moderate fire danger.  Little or no commitment of national resources.

2) FIRE SUMMARY

State  Agency      Area             Fire                    Acres  Status

FL     FL        State            *Unnamed fire             24,000  MN

NOTES:

- Fires - Asterisk indicates newly reported fire. T1 and T2 indicate
  assigned Type I and Type II Teams.
- Status - Containment/control dates are estimates; CN means
  contain, CL means control, MN means the fire is being monitored; "none"
  means no estimate; "yes" means the fire has been contained.
- Agencies - All BLM areas are districts; CDF is California
  Department of Forestry.

3) FIRE ACTIVITY - 282 fires for 27,696 acres in past 24 hours.

4) FIRE DANGERS - The following parks are experiencing high to extreme fire
danger this morning:

       High                Very High                 Extreme

Bryce Canyon              Zion                     Lake Meredith
Big Cypress               Guadalupe Mountains      Chiricahua
Indiana Dunes             Padre Island
Bandelier                 El Malpais
Carlsbad Caverns          Grand Canyon
Great Basin               Sequoia/Kings Canyon
                          Saguaro
                          Everglades

5) ANALYSIS - Very high to extreme conditions continue to be reported by
areas throughout the Southwest and Colorado. National parks report the
following:

* Big Cypress - Fuels are dry after several days of north wind.
Prescribed burns are on hold until the park has some standing water
in the prairies and on buggy trails.

* Everglades - The park has very high fire dangers and is at MC4.

* Chickasaw - Southern Oklahoma is drying out; there have been several
grass fires locally over the past week, but none yet in the park.

*  El Malpais - Daytime fuels are all below eight percent moisture
content.

6) PROGNOSIS - The potential for increased activity exists in Arizona with
the possible onset of dry thunderstorms.

(NPS National Wildland Fire Summary, 0430 MDT, 6/19/90; NIFCC Intelligence
Section, 0530 MDT, 6/19/90).

RESOURCE PROTECTION/MANAGEMENT

No reports received.

OFFICE NOTES

1) Questions have arisen among readers unfamiliar with fire reporting
regarding the meaning of the preparedness level noted at the beginning of
the fire report section. The following is offered as guidance; on this and
future morning reports, an explanatory note will be provided following the
preparedness level:

Preparedness levels are established by the Directorate at NICC throughout
the calendar year. Preparedness levels are basically dictated by burning
conditions, fire activity, and resource availability. Resource availability
is the area of most concern.

*  PL-I - No large fire activity nationally. Most geographic areas have low
to moderate fire danger. Little or no commitment of national resources.

*  PL-II - One geographic area experiencing high fire danger. Numerous Class
A, B, and C fires occurring and a potential exists for escapes to larger
(project) fires. Minimal mobilization of resources from other geographic
areas occurring. The potential exists for mobilizing additional resources
from other geographic areas.

*  PL-III - Two or more geographic areas experiencing incidents requiring a
major commitment of national resources. High number of fires becoming
Class D and larger. Additional resources are being ordered and mobilized
through NICC. Type 1 teams are committed in two or more areas, or 300
crews are committed nationally.

*  PL-IV - Two or more geographic areas experiencing incidents requiring Type
I teams. Competition exists for resources between geographic areas. 450
crews or nine Type I teams committed nationally.

*  PL-V - Several geographic areas are experiencing major incidents which
have the potential to exhaust all agency fire resources. 625 crews
committed nationally.

STAFF STATUS

- Division Chief: No scheduled travel.

- Branch of Resource & Visitor Protection: Martin on AL (6/17-6/20);
  Loach on AL (6/18-7/9); Healy on AL (6/17-6/22).

- Branch of Fire: Broyles and Clark at S-490/590 steering committee meeting,
  Portland, OR (6/18-22).


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Telephone:  FTS 268-4874/6039 or 202-208-4874/6039
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