RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                           MORNING REPORT

Attention: Directorate
           Regional and Park Chief Rangers, USPP, BIFC, FLETC
           Ranger Activities Division Information Network

Day/Date:  Wednesday, January 15, 1992

INCIDENTS

92-2 - Channel Islands (California) - Follow-up on Search

The search for M.B., which was suspended becasue of storms, was
resumed on January 7th.  The body of M.B.'s brother B. was recovered in
Cathedral Cave on Anacapa Island on the 5th.  Four divers searched the cave,
but had to abandon their efforts due to swell conditions at the cave's
entrance.  A search of Cathedral Cave, surrounding caves and the adjacent
sea floor was completed the following day without results.  An extensive
aerial search of Anacapa and Santa Cruz Islands and their off-shore waters
was conducted by the park's contract helicopter on the 9th and also proved
fruitless.  The active phase of the search was accordingly concluded on the
10th.  B.'s family hired private vessels and commercial divers to search
the area; that effort concluded on the 11th.  The county medical examiner
has ruled that B.B. died of asphyxiation by drowning.  [Jack
Fitzgerald, CR, CHIS, via CompuServe message from Herb Gercke, RAD/WRO,
1/14]

92-5 - Lake Mead (Nevada) - Air Crash with Fatalities

A commercially-operated Cessna T-210-L crashed just short of the runway at
the Temple Bar airstrip on the afternoon of January 13th, killing two of the
plane's five occupants.  The pilot and two passengers who survived were
injured in the accident.  The crash was witnessed by a park maintenance
worker, who reported it to dispatch.  Rescuers responded immediately, and
the injured were transported by helicopter to a hospital in Las Vegas.  The
pilot reported engine problems before the accident.  All of the passengers
on the plane were from Hong Kong.  No names are available at this time. 
[Bud Inman, LAME, via CompuServe message from Herb Gercke, RAD/WRO, 1/14]

STAFF STATUS

Division Chief: Brady at division program planning meeting, WASO (1/16).

Branch of Resource and Visitor Protection: Martin at division program
planning meeting, WASO (1/16); Halainen at Servicewide uniform committee
meeting, Nashville, TN (1/13-1/17); Marriott at meeting with Forest Service
(1/12-1/15).

Branch of Fire and Aviation: Hurd at division program planning meeting, WASO
(1/16); Spruill attending aircraft accident course, USC, Los Angeles, CA
(1/6-1/17).

Prepared by WASO Division of Ranger Activities

Telephone:  Branch of R&VP - FTS 268-4874/6039 or 202-208-4874/6039
            Branch of F&A (WASO) - FTS 268-5572/5573 or 202-208-5572/5573

Telefax:    Branch of R&VP - FTS 268-6756 or 202-208-6756
            Branch of F&A (WASO) - FTS 268-5977 or 202-208-5977

CompuServe: Branch of R&VP - WASO-RANGER
            Branch of F&A (WASO) - WASO-FIRE-WO

SEAdog:     Branch of R&VP - 1/650
            Branch of F&A (WASO) - 1/655