RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                           MORNING REPORT

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

Day/Date:  Tuesday, May 18, 1993

Broadcast: By 0830 ET

INCIDENTS

93-250 - Mammoth Cave (Kentucky) - Follow-up on Falling Fatality

The investigation into the death of A.O., the Job Corps student who
fell to his death on May 11th, has been completed, and it's been established
that his death was accidental.  A.O. died instantly from massive trauma
to the head, trunk and extremities.  A memorial service was held at 3 p.m.
on Friday at the Job Corps center.  Critical incident counseling has been
made available to all employees and students involved in the incident. 
Several staff members and students planned to attend A.O.'s funeral in
Flintsville, Tennessee, on Saturday.  The investigation into the incident
was conducted by rangers, FBI agents and the local coroner.  [RAD/SERO,
5/14]

93-258 - Fredericksburg/Spotsylvania (Virginia) - Serious Employee Injury

Noel Harrison, the park's cultural resource management specialist, was
seriously injured on the evening of May 15th when the vehicle he was driving
was broadsided on the driver's side by a vehicle which had run a stop sign. 
Noel received multiple injuries and was flown by helicopter to Fairfax
Hospital, where he underwent surgery on the 16th to relieve pressure on his
spine.  He's currently on a respirator with collapsed lungs.  Ray Brown of
Manassas National Battlefield, who was a passenger in the vehicle, was also
injured, but not seriously.  The driver of the other vehicle fled the scene
on foot after the accident.  [CRO, FRSP, 5/17]

93-259 - Grand Canyon (Arizona) - Suicide

On May 8th, rangers responded to a report of a vehicle over the rim on West
Rim Drive at Hopi Point.  Ranger Kathy Korte arrived first and found a 1993
Nissan about 500 feet below the rim.  Ranger Keith Lober rappeled down to
the wreckage of the vehicle, which had been compressed to a height of about
two feet, and determined that there was a body within it.  The victim was
subsequently identified as M.M., 31, of Illinois.  The next day,
rangers from the park's technical rescue team were short-hauled to the site
by a helicopter due to severe rockfall danger associated with cliff
rappelling.  They employed auto extrication equipment which was sling-loaded
to the scene to remove M.M.'s remains.  Preliminary investigation
indicates that the cause of death was suicide and that M.M. had been dead
for over a month.  The vehicle will be removed by a heavy-lift helicopter at
the expense of the victim's insurance company.  An investigation by rangers
and the Coconino sheriff's department is underway.  [Dispatch, GRCA, 5/17]

93-260 - Grand Canyon (Arizona) - Lightning Fatality

While hiking in Tanner Canyon with three companions on May 13th, D.C.,
21, was struck in the head by lightning.  Although his friends
performed CPR for 45 minutes, they were unable to revive him.  [Kimberly
Spaulding, GRCA, 5/14]

93-261 - Glen Canyon (Utah/Arizona) - Significant EMS Incident

During the late afternoon of May 9th, a 14-year-old boy, the son of an ARA
Leisure Services employee, was discovered unconscious on Lone Rock Beach. 
Park medics responded and treated him for alcohol overdose.  He was air
evacuated to Page Hospital, then to Flagstaff Memorial, where he remains in
a semi-conscious state with irregular brain wave patterns.  His blood
alcohol content at the time of the incident was .300.  [Larry Clark, CR,
GLCA, 5/16]

93-262 - Dinosaur (Colorado) - Drowning

On May 1st, a group of off-duty Colorado Outward Bound guides swamped a raft
on the Yampa River in the upper reaches of Cross Mountain Canyon, a
particularly difficult stretch of whitewater within a BLM-administered area
about 12 miles upstream from the park.  E.S., a guide trainee, came
out of his life jacket during the incident and disappeared from view.  Park
employees assisted in the search for him, but to no avail.  On the evening
of May 14th, E.S.'s body was seen floating past Deerlodge campground,
launch site for whitewater trips in the park.  A kayaker was able to
overtake the body approximately two miles downstream and was able to secure
it to shore in a rugged section of canyon.  District ranger Ed Pontbriand
assisted members of the Moffat County sheriff's office in a nighttime
recovery of the body.  Due to the terrain and difficulty of boat access, the
body was removed from the river bank using technical rope techniques. 
Because of this and previous accidents in Cross Mountain Canyon, the sheriff
has closed it to all boating except for kayaks.  [Nick Eason, DINO, 5/17]

FIRE ACTIVITY

1) FIRE SITUATION - Preparedness Level I

2) FIRE SUMMARY

State  Agency     Area            Fire              5/17     5/18    Status

 AK    State   Delta Area      * 312080            1,300    1,300    CN 5/17

 NM    BLM     Roswell         * Middle                -      500    CL
       State   -               * Hope                  -      160    CL

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 - 177 fires for 1,675 acres reported in past 24 hours.

5) ANALYSIS - Increased activity is being reported in the Southwest, South
and East.
   
6) PROGNOSIS - The potential exists for increased initial attack activity
because of continuing warm and dry weather conditions.

[NIFCC Intelligence Section, 0530, 5/18]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No field reports today.

UPCOMING IN CONGRESS

The following activities will be taking place in Congress during coming
weeks on matters pertaining to the National Park Service.  If you would like
further information on any of these hearings or bills, please contact Dottie
in WASO Legislation at 202-208-3636.

May 18

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee [Johnston]:
Hearing on S. 721, Land and Water Conservation Fund Emergency
Funding Act of 1993. 

May 18

House Natural Resources' Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests
and Public Lands [Vento]: Hearing on H.R. 1603, to authorize
appropriations for programs, functions, and activities of the
Bureau of Land Management for fiscal years 1994-1997, and to
improve the management of public lands. 

May 27

Senate Committee on Indian Affairs [McCain]: Oversight hearing
on Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act. 

June 8

Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior and Related
Agencies [Byrd]: Hearing on the FY 94 budget request for the
Department of Interior. 

July 1

Senate Governmental Affairs Committee [Glenn]: RESCHEDULED:
Hearing on the failure of the federal government to provide
adequate budgeting for its own environmental programs, focusing
on the Department of Interior. 

STAFF STATUS

Division Chief: No leave or travel scheduled.

Branch of Resource and Visitor Protection: Henry at Society of American
Foresters' interagency wilderness conference (5/17-5/21).

Branch of Fire and Aviation: Spruill at NPS-60 workgroup meeting (5/17-
5/21); Gale coordinating incident management training course (5/18-5/22);
Broyles at meeting of steering committee for fire management for agency
administrators' course (5/17-5/20); Farrel at structural fire specialist
fire applications review (5/17-5/20).

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