RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                           MORNING REPORT

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

Day/Date:  Friday, March 19, 1993

Broadcast: By 0800 EST

INCIDENTS

93-114 - Great Smokies (Tennessee/North Carolina) - Follow-up on Search

All 11 missing hikers were found in good health yesterday morning and
evacuated from the park.  Four were at the Russell Field shelter, and the
remainder were at or near the Mollies Ridge shelter.  The park's backcountry
remains closed.  Demobilization is underway.  [Leon Konz, ICS Team, GRSM,
3/18]

93-121 - Statue of Liberty (New York) - Follow-up on Oil Spill

A contractor has placed about a hundred feet of containment boom around the
oil sheen in New York Harbor which may have been caused by a leakage
stemming from a park fuel pump failure.  The boom will remain in place
through this morning while the contractor and park maintenance staff
continue to pump hot water through three obstructed storm drains on Liberty
Island.  Coast Guard officials have notified the park of an oil-like sheen
in the Morris Canal near the original spill site; no association between the
two spill areas has been established.  [Hank Brightman, RAD/NARO, 3/18]

93-122 - Yosemite (California) - Structural Fire

Just after 6:30 a.m. on March 13th, a fire was reported in Ahwahnee Bungalow
721, a Yosemite Park and Curry Company lodging unit located near the
Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite Valley.  A Curry Company engine crew was first on
scene and found flames extending through the roof.  They diminished the
fire's intensity by applying water from the outside; park firefighters then
entered the building and extinguished the fire in the attic and raceway. 
The building was unoccupied at the time.  Damage is estimated to be
approximately $20,000, but the value saved was about four times that amount. 
The fire was caused by a heat lamp left on in the raceway to prevent pipes
from freezing.  It had been burning for some time before being discovered. 
[Leslie Crossland, YOSE, 3/18]

93-123 - Coronado (Arizona) - Drug Smuggling

On the afternoon of March 3rd, a report of a suspicious vehicle at the
Montezuma Pass parking lot was received from a counternarcotics listening
post in the park.  Two men, later joined by a third, were seen approaching
the vehicle, then running behind it.  Soon thereafter, ranger William Smith
clocked the vehicle at 34 mph in a 20 mph zone and ordered the driver to
stop.  The vehicle instead accelerated to a high rate of speed and escaped
after a seven-and-a-half mile pursuit.  The occupants crossed the border
into Mexico at a point where some 60 feet of barbed wire had been removed. 
All evidence suggests that this was a cocaine smuggling operation.  The
three men observed at the parking area escaped on foot overland toward the
border.  [William Smith, CORO, 3/17]

93-124 - Martin Luther King (Georgia) - Drug Raid

Members of the Atlanta police department's narcotics unit raided an
apartment near the park's headquarters on March 11th and arrested three
persons for drug trafficking.  A small quantity of crack cocaine was also
seized.  One of the trio had a previous arrest for drug trafficking in the
park and has threatened park rangers.  Rangers did not participate in the
raid, but conducted surveillance and provided information and surveillance
facilities to the department.  Cooperative efforts to eliminate drug
trafficking in the park are continuing.  [Johnny Sims, CR, MALU, 3/15]

93-125 - Stones River (Tennessee) - Special Event

A reenactment of the Civil War battle of Murfreesboro, billed as the largest
reenactment of 1993, took place on Corps of Engineers property about ten
miles from the park during the weekend of March 5th through the 7th.  Three
rangers and an ENPMA employee from other parks were called in to Stones
River to assist with expected crowds.  Events scheduled for Friday were
canceled due to mud, so many of the reenactors visited the park; many others
stopped by on Sunday and Monday.  Over 3,000 vehicles entered the park
between the 4th and 8th and there were 3,300 visits to the visitor center. 
Organizers at the reenactment said that about 7,000 reenactors and 18,000
spectators attended the event over the weekend.  [STRI, 3/9]

93-126 - Big Bend (Texas) - EMS; International Assist

On March 9th, family members brought M.C.-G. of Santa Elena,
Mexico, to rangers at Castolon for medical care.  They had not been able to
rouse him for several hours; by the time rangers Bill Wright and Kathy
Hambly saw him, he was pulseless and not breathing.  They began CPR on him
and continued it for more than an hour until medics from Terlingua arrived
on scene and were able to get a doctor to authorize termination of
resuscitation efforts.  Between 20 and 30 family members watched the two
rangers perform CPR.  Cardiac arrest is the suspected cause of death. 
M.C.-G. was taken back to Mexico for burial.  [Roger Moder, CR,
BIBE, 3/18]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No field reports today.

STAFF STATUS

Division Chief: No leave or travel scheduled.

Branch of Resource and Visitor Protection: Dickerhoof on AL (3/15-3/19).

Branch of Fire and Aviation: Cook instructing S-230/260/390 (3/15-3/26);
Clark instructing S-490/590 (3/13-3/27).

Prepared by WASO Division of Ranger Activities

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