RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                           MORNING REPORT

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

Day/Date:  Friday, July 3, 1992

INCIDENTS

92-307 - Grand Canyon (Arizona) - Follow-up on D.H. Search 

The search for D.H. focused on Grand Canyon Village yesterday
evening.  All inbound and outbound traffic was stopped from 8:00 to 10:30
p.m. while dogs and a SWAT team followed an active trail throughout the
village.  Although D.H. was not found, a videotape made at about the same
time by a park visitor confirmed that he was in the area.  While filming at
Mather Point at 7:30 p.m., the visitor noted that one of the people in the
scene matched D.H.'s description and brought the tape in to searchers. 
The Winslow, Arizona, police officer who arrested D.H. for the bank
robbery that put him in prison confirmed that he was the person in the tape. 
D.H.'s appearance has changed markedly since he was last seen.  He had
completely new but ill-fitting clothing on, was wearing a hat and
sunglasses, and appeared to have a gun under his shirt.  He was also
carrying an identifiable style of canteen which may help searchers find him. 
When filmed, D.H. appeared to be panhandling visitors.  Efforts today
will focus on containing and confining the search area and on undercover
searches for D.H..  Meanwhile, clarification has been provided on the
events accompanying the original contact with D.H. in the parking lot of
Babbitt's store.  Ranger Don Miller received the first report of D.H.
from the son of the man D.H. was attempting to kidnap, not from dispatch. 
Miller was on routine patrol when the boy approached him and said that a man
was holding a gun on his father.  Miller drove up to the scene slowly.  When
D.H. saw the marked unit, he pointed his gun at Miller, who ducked down;
as he did so, D.H. jumped into his vehicle and fled with the first two
hostages.  While this was going on, rangers John Piastuck and Chris Fors
were responding to assist Miller.  As Fors approached the scene, D.H.
went by him, stuck his weapon out the car's window, and fired at least one
round at Fors from no more than five feet away - loud enough, Fors later
reported, to make his ears ring.  The round hit neither Fors nor his
vehicle.  Ranger Keith Lober then joined the pursuit, and the four rangers
chased D.H. onto West Rim Drive.  D.H. brandished his weapon out the
car's window during the pursuit and fired at least two rounds at the
following rangers.  D.H. apparently did not know that the drive is a dead
end road, and had to abandon his vehicle when he ran out of highway.  [Ken
Phillips and Brian Smith, ICS team, GRCA, 7/3]

92-327 - Pecos (New Mexico) - Balloon Crash

On the morning of July 2nd, a Raven Classic balloon owned by Balloons Over
Santa Fe made a forced landing in the middle pasture of the park's Forked
Lightning Ranch.  Although the balloon suffered only minor damage, one of
the two passengers, V.S., 79, of Fort Worth, Texas, suffered
fractures to the mandible, clavicle and a metacarpel in the landing.  She
was transported to a hospital in Santa Fe by a local ambulance service.  The
FAA has been notified and is investigating the incident.  [Gary Hartley,
PECO, 7/2]

92-328 - Obed (Tennessee) - Marijuana Eradication

On June 27th, rangers and members of the Ninth District drug task force
found and destroyed approximately 200 marijuana plants on the north side of
the park.  The plants, which were located by one of the rangers through
covert operations, were about seven feet in height and valued at
approximately $200,000.  [OBED, 7/2]

FIRE ACTIVITY

1) FIRE SITUATION - Preparedness Level I

2) FIRE SUMMARY

State  Agency     Area           Fire                 7/2     7/3    Status

 TX    NPS    Big Bend NP     * Agave Complex           -   2,000    CN 7/5

 AZ    BIA    Pima Agency     * River                   -     100    CND

NOTES:

- Fires - Asterisk indicates newly reported fire (on this report). T1 and T2
  indicate assigned Type I and Type II Teams.
- Status - The following abbreviations are employed:

  NR - No report received      MS - Modified suppression strategy
  CL - Controlled              MN - Being monitored
  CS - Confinement strategy    NEC - No estimate of containment
  CN (date) - Expected date    CND - Contained
     of containment            DM - Demob in progress

3) FIRE REPORT HIGHLIGHTS - 

 * Big Bend - The Gap Fire in the Agave Complex has priority due to 
   threats to powerlines.  No other information is currently available
   on the park's fires.

4) FIRE ACTIVITY - 152 fires for 12,976 acres in the past 24 hours.

5) ANALYSIS - Fire activity remains at a minimal level.

6) PROGNOSIS - No resource shortages expected.

[NIFCC Intelligence Section, 7/3]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No field reports today.

STAFF STATUS

Division Chief: Brady conducting field interviews for "Ranger Futures"
project (6/28-7/3).

Branch of Resource and Visitor Protection: Henry on annual leave (6/25-7/2);
Smith on annual leave (6/22-7/2); Coffey on detail to WASO Wildlife and
Vegetation.

Branch of Fire and Aviation: No leave or travel scheduled.

Prepared by WASO Division of Ranger Activities