RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                       MORNING REPORT

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

Day/date: Wednesday, November 21, 1990

*** There will be no morning report either tomorrow or Friday ***

INCIDENTS

90-419 - Mammoth Cave (Kentucky) - MVA with Drowning

Around 6:00 p.m. on the 18th, a pickup truck towing a horse trailer
approached the north landing for the Green River ferry, went through a stop
sign, and plunged into the river. Both truck and trailer were submerged in
about eight feet of water. The ferry's operator saw the accident, employed
a small boat kept on the ferry for emergencies to paddle to the truck, and
rescued one of the vehicle's occupants, 29-year-old P.M. of
Owensboro, Kentucky. A second occupant, B.B., 31, of Rockport,
Indiana, failed to surface, and help was summoned. An NPS diver checked the
vehicle, but found no one inside. Rangers and members of a local rescue
squad began dragging operations. About three hours later, B.B.'s body was
recovered 75 yards downstream. He was pronounced dead at the scene by the
county coroner. P.M. was taken to a medical center in Bowling Green for
treatment. Two horses in the trailer also drowned in the accident. (Telefax
from Bill Springer, RAD/SERO, 11/20).

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No reports today.

OFFICE NOTES

1) We continue to hear from parks who want to order body armor from R&R.
Some procurement officers have even told their ranger divisions that body
armor must be procured from RSR. As noted before in this report, the body
armor procurement that went through RSR in September was a one time only
arrangement. Parks should continue to buy body armor from GSA as they have
in the past.

STAFF STATUS

- Division Chief: Dabney on AL (11/23).

- Branch of Resource Sc Visitor Protection: Martin on AL (11/19-11/23);
  Coffey, Henry, Marriott and Halainen on AL (11/23).

- Branch of Fire: No travel scheduled.