RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                           MORNING REPORT

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

Day/Date:  Monday, April 12, 1993

Broadcast: By 0830 ET

INCIDENTS

93-175 - Fire Island (New York) - Forced Aircraft Landing

On the afternoon of April 6th, a plane piloted by V.A. landed
on the beach 200 yards east of Fire Island Pines.  Neither V.A. nor
his passenger was injured.  FAA inspectors determined that the plane had run
out of gas while V.A. was returning to the Suffolk County airport
after a flight to New Jersey.  V.A. was forbidden from attempting to
take off because the beach surface was uneven and the landing gear could
have dug into the sand.  Around 4 a.m. the next morning, Nikolaos
Marnierakis, owner of the Dedalos Flight School at Suffolk County airport,
landed a second plane on the beach; V.A. was with him, and the two
planned on refueling the first plane.  At 8:20 a.m., a park employee found
Marnierakis' plane stuck in the sand.  He was cited and is due to appear
before a federal magistrate on June 2nd.  The planes were towed down the
beach to Smith Point and removed from the island.  [FIIS, 4/9]

93-176 - Joshua Tree (California) - Rescue

Rangers received a report of a climbing accident near the Hidden Valley
picnic area early on the afternoon of April 8th.  Ranger Johnson responded
and found T.R. supine, unconscious and bleeding from serious head
and leg injuries on a ledge about 30 feet above the ground.  Two local
climbers were trying to maintain an airway.  Johnson inserted an oral
airway, administered high-flow oxygen, controlled T.R.'s bleeding, and
packaged him for evacuation.  Rangers Patterson and Burnell assisted Johnson
in rigging a lowering system, then served as attendants in the evacuation
process.  Patient care was taken over by Joshua Tree Ambulance paramedics
once the lowering was completed, and T.R. was evacuated by helicopter
to a local trauma center shortly thereafter.  Witnesses state that
T.R. had been scrambling on the rocks at the picnic area, that he had
climbed to a high point on the west end of Turtle Rock, and that he fell 30
to 40 feet from the rock, bouncing off several ledges before finally coming
to rest on the ledge where Johnson found him.  [JOTR, 4/12]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No field reports today.

STAFF STATUS

Division Chief: No leave or travel scheduled.

Branch of Resource and Visitor Protection: Smith at managerial grid training
course (4/11-4/16); Dickerhoof at FLETC 9PT curriculum review conference
(4/13-4/15).

Branch of Fire and Aviation: Gale and Broyles at managerial grid training
course (4/11-4/17); Clark at national fire weather group meeting (4/13-
4/16).

Prepared by WASO Division of Ranger Activities

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