RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                           MORNING REPORT

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

Day/Date:  Wednesday, January 22, 1992

INCIDENTS

92-11 - Grand Canyon (Arizona) - Rescue

On the afternoon of January 13th, park dispatch received a 911 call
reporting uncontrolled seizures in an unconscious 17-month-old girl at a
residence in the park.  Rangers Brian Smith (paramedic), Ken Phillips (I-EMT),
and Chris Pergiel (EMT) began advanced life support and transported
the victim to the park clinic via ambulance.  Initial efforts to control the
seizures were unsuccessful; valium was administered en route, however, and
the seizures had stopped by the time the ambulance reached the clinic. 
Physicians and nurses there were unable to stabilize the girl and determined
that immediate transport was needed to a facility providing advanced
pediatric care.  Due to an outbreak of a virus affecting infants throughout
Arizona, the only facility available was the hospital in Tuba City on the
Navajo reservation.  Ranger Tammy Luplow (paramedic) accompanied the child
during the transport by helicopter to the hospital, where she was eventually
stabilized.  Both fever and trauma have been ruled out as possible causes of
the seizures.  [Dispatch, GRCA, via CompuServe message from Herb Gercke,
RAD/WRO, 1/21]

92-12 - Yosemite (California) - Fatality; Drug Overdose

Rangers Bowen, Lalone and McCloskey (all paramedics) were dispatched to a
Yosemite Park and Curry Company dorm in the early morning hours of January
14th in response to a report of an unconscious male in seizure.  Upon
arrival, they found M.C., 28, a former Curry Company employee,
lying unconscious on the floor of a dorm restroom.  During their examination
of M.C., he went into respiratory arrest, and the rangers initiated
advanced life support measures.  He was taken to the park's clinic, then
transferred to the Merced Community Medical Clinic, where he was placed on a
life support system.  M.C. never regained consciousness, though, and died
on January 15th after life support measures were terminated.  Yosemite
investigators Jablonski, Sullivan and Hinson determined that M.C. had
ingested large quantities of methamphetamines prior to the time he was found
in the restroom.  Law enforcement rangers from the Valley District conducted
in-depth interviews within the community and identified several witnesses. 
A suspect was subsequently taken into custody on two counts of felony
possession of Schedule III drugs (methamphetamines).  A homicide
investigation is being conducted to determine who provided the drugs to
M.C..  [Law Enforcement Office, YOSE, via CompuServe message from Herb
Gercke, RAD/WRO, 1/21]

92-13 - Big Thicket (Texas) - Arson Fire

While on duty early on the morning of January 11th, rangers Randy Neal and
Jeffrey Goad spotted a vehicle fire in a private mobile home community.  The
vehicle's engine compartment was fully involved, and there were two vehicles
and a mobile home with a propane tank immediately adjacent to it.  While
Goad evacuated the residents from the mobile home, Neal employed a garden
hose to extinguish the flames.  The local fire marshall said that the mobile
home would likely have caught fire and its residents would have been trapped
if it had not been for the rangers' actions.  The cause of the fire has been
determined to have been arson.  [Michael Livingston, CR, BITH, via
CompuServe message from Ben Espinoza, RAD/SWRO, 1/21]

92-14 - Organ Pipe Cactus (Arizona) - Burglary

Two people burglarized the park's visitor center on the evening of January
16th.  Several items of clothing, including an NPS field jacket, were
stolen.  The pair entered by breaking several windows; although a silent
alarm was activated, the contracting alarm company failed to notify the
park.  Rangers began tracking the two people the following morning, but were
not able to find them.  Park maintenance personnel subsequently reported a
suspicious vehicle near the border.  Rangers determined that the vehicle had
been stolen earlier in Why, Arizona, that a cassette player and two speakers
had been taken from it, and that two people had been involved in the theft. 
Evidence indicates that the burglary and car theft were committed by the
same persons.  The investigation continues.  [Dwayne Collier, SOAR, via
CompuServe message from Herb Gercke, RAD/WRO, 1/21]

STAFF STATUS

Division Chief: No leave or travel scheduled.

Branch of Resource and Visitor Protection: No leave or travel scheduled.

Branch of Fire and Aviation: Erskine and Gale at meeting of steering
committee for MAC group course, Marana, AZ (1/21-1/24); Broyles at wildland
fire qualifications task committee meeting, Phoenix, AZ (1/23-1/25); Clark
at InciNet meeting, New Orleans, LA (1/20-1/24).

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
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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