RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                           MORNING REPORT

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

Day/Date:  Thursday, May 13, 1993

Broadcast: By 0830 ET

INCIDENTS

92-420 - Colonial (Virginia) - Follow-up on Homicide

H.J.B., 27, of Richmond, Virginia, was recently convicted of the
August, 1992, murder of G.C.T., his 17-year-old girlfriend. 
The homicide occurred along the Colonial Parkway in an area of proprietary
jurisdiction.  On May 11th, H.J.B. was sentenced in York County circuit court
to life in prison.  [Jim Burnett, CR, COLO, 5/12]

93-247 - Haleakala (Hawaii) - Follow-up on Employee Injury

Facility manager Mike Gerrity has not yet regained consciousness, but x-rays
and CAT scans strongly indicate a full and complete recovery.  Although he
remains on a ventilator, nurses report that he took some breaths on his own
yesterday afternoon.  Doctors will finish closing his arm and leg fractures
today.  He is also being treated for a lacerated tongue, a suborbital
fracture behind his left eye, a fracture at the base of his skull, and a
possible fracture on the left side of his face.  The family is staying at
the hospital.  A fund is being set up to help them with expenses; details
will follow as soon as it has been established.  Cards may be sent to Mike
at Room 459, Queen's Medical Center, 1301 Punchbowl, Honolulu, HI 96813. 
[Karen Ardoin, CR, HALE, 5/12]

93-250 - Mammoth Cave (Kentucky) - Job Corps Student Falling Fatality

The body of A.O., a 22-year-old student at the Great Onyx Job
Corps Center, was found at the base of a 120-foot cliff about a half mile
from the center at 7:15 a.m. yesterday morning by searchers who'd been
looking for him through the night.  A.O. and three other students had
become lost after sunset on May 11th, and A.O. fell as they were trying
to return to the job corps center.  They were found to be missing during a
routine bed check and rangers were notified.  A hasty search of the area was
conducted during the night, and the three remaining students were located
around 5:30 a.m.  Although the death appears to be accidental, an
investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident continues.  An
autopsy will be performed.  Funeral arrangements for A.O., who was from
Flintville, Tennessee, are not yet complete.  The incident is being handled
under the incident command system.  The park is seeking individuals with
training in critical incident stress debriefing to augment the center's
counseling staff and local Wellness Center personnel in taking care of the
needs of students and staff members.  [Dave Mihalic, Superintendent, MACA,
5/12]

93-251 - St. Croix (Minnesota/Wisconsin) - Drowning

On the evening of May 11th, T.M., 18, of Osceola, Wisconsin, was
swimming in a backwater area of the St. Croix River at Osceola Landing when
he went under and did not reappear.  His body was recovered about three
hours later.  T.M. was said to be a poor swimmer.  No drugs or alcohol were
involved.  T.M. was one of from 12 to 20 other Osceola students who were in
the area at the time.  Rangers were joined in recovery efforts by park,
police and rescue units from both bordering states.  [Henry Hughlett, CR,
SACN, 5/12]

93-252 - Shenandoah (Virginia) - Search and Rescue

Just before 9 p.m. on Sunday, May 9th, C.E. notified the
park that his five children had become lost while hiking down the Ridge
Trail on Old Rag Mountain.  The children, who ranged in age from eight to
16, had run ahead of him during the descent; when C.E. reached the
trailhead parking area, none of them were there.  A two-person hasty team
and containment units were deployed overnight.  At first light, four dog
teams from Mid-Atlantic DOGS, five searchers from the Appalachian Search and
Rescue Conference and 14 park employees joined the search effort.  One
tracking dog followed a scent for about a half mile from the point last
seen, at which point the handler heard a whistle from the lost party, made
verbal contact with them, then climbed down a small drainage to them.  All
were okay and hiked out to the trailhead to meet their family.  They
apparently tried to take a short cut off the established trail and became
lost in the process.  A number of similar cases have occurred recently in
the Old Rag Mountain area, so the park is working on a public information
and contact plan to reduce these instances of off-trail hikes which become
searches.  Laurie Shannon was IC on the incident.  [Greg Stiles, Acting CR,
SHEN, 5/12]

93-253 - Upper Delaware (New York) - Drowning

C.K., 37, jumped off the Skinner's Falls bridge into the
Delaware River on the afternoon of May 9th, then resurfaced yelling for
help.  A park visitor attempted a rescue, but was unsuccessful.  C.K.
was recovered a half hour later.  CPR was begun immediately and he was
transported to a local hospital, where he C.K. pronounced dead.  According to
friends who were with him at the scene, C.K. had often jumped from the
30-foot-high bridge in the past.  It appears that alcohol may have been a
factor.  [Glenn Voss, CR, UPDE, 5/10]

93-254 - White Sands (New Mexico) - Search

Around 7:30 p.m. on May 9th, the park was notified that two men - G.R.
and B.L., both in their mid-20s - had hiked into the dunes
and had not returned.  They were wearing only shorts and had neither shoes
nor water.  The weather during the night was clear, with temperatures in the
upper 30s and light winds.  Adjacent agencies were notified, and attraction
efforts were conducted until a half hour past midnight.  Search efforts were
then suspended until 5:30 a.m. the following morning.  The New Mexico state
police began searching for the pair with ground searchers and two military
helicopters.  Just before 11 a.m., G.R. and B.L. walked into RATSCAT,
a secure military facility on the White Sands missile range north of the
park.  They said that they'd walked southwest for about an hour after
entering the dunes, then walked north for two hours, missing the Heart of
the Dunes drive.  During the night, they dug a pit, placed brush around it
to break the wind, and started a small fire to keep warm.  They spotted the
RATSCAT facility at daybreak and walked to it.  The RATSCAT staff provided
food and water and treated both men's cut and sore feet.  Other than being
very tired, both men were in good condition.  [Bob Appling, CR, WHSA, 5/12]

93-255 - Canyon de Chelly (Arizona) - Special Event

The annual spring camporee for the Anasazi, Zuni and Navajo Nation Districts
of the Boy Scouts' Great Southwest Council was held in the park from April
30th to May 2nd.  Over 750 scouts of all ages camped at Cottonwood
campground and participated in a weekend of service projects, trail work, a
hike in the canyon, and scouting skills and advancement work.  Staff from
Boy's Life and Scouting Magazine were on hand to record the events; Sunny
Dooley, a well-known Navajo storyteller, and ranger William Yazzie provided
a campfire program of storytelling and Native American music.  A Navajo taco
dinner was provided on Saturday evening, with the monument's staff preparing
over 800 pieces of fry bread.  The sole casualty during the weekend
consisted of a cut finger from a wood-carving project.  [Doug Roe, CR, CACH,
5/10]

FIRE ACTIVITY

1) FIRE SITUATION - Preparedness Level I

2) FIRE SUMMARY

State  Agency     Area            Fire              5/12     5/13    Status

 CA    USFS    Cleveland         Ramona Complex:
                                 - Eagle           4,000    4,600    CN 5/13
                                 - Boden           1,200    1,300    CND
               Sequoia         * Richbar               -      150    CND
       County  Kern County     * Power                 -      500    CND

 OR    USFS    Rogue River       Ranch               100      100    CND    
               Deschutes         Surveyor's 
                                  Lava - T2          600      763    CN 5/13

 WA    USFS    Wenatchee       * High Spud/Shamel
                                  Complex - T2         -      100    NEC
                               * Scotty - T2           -      100    NEC

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

3) PARK FIRE REPORTS - No reports today.

4) FIRE ACTIVITY - 123 fires for 705 acres reported in past 24 hours.

5) ANALYSIS - California and Oregon continue to experience increasing fire
activity.  Activity continues in the Southwest and South.  Several units in
the East are reporting high to extreme conditions.
   
6) PROGNOSIS - The potential exists for increased activity due to warm, dry
and windy weather conditions.  No resource shortages are expected.

[NIFCC Intelligence Section, 0530, 5/13]

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: Broyles at overhead development review (5/10-
5/14; Gale at ICS working team meeting (5/10-5/12); Clark at S-290 meeting
(5/11-5/12).

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