RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                           MORNING REPORT

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

Day/Date:  Wednesday, May 19, 1993

Broadcast: By 0830 ET

INCIDENTS

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

Facility manager Mike Gerrity, who was seriously injured in a bicycle
accident on May 10th, underwent surgery last Thursday and Saturday to close
his leg and arm fractures and to reconstruct his facial bones.  He responds
to simple verbal commands, such as to open his eyes, but doctors do not
expect him to fully regain consciousness for another three to four weeks. 
Mike's wife Ronnie, his son Mike, his brothers Tim and Kevin, and his
parents have been in Honolulu attending to his care.  The family is residing
in quarters at the hospital for now.  Cards and letters may be sent to Mike
and his family at Queen's Medical Center, Room 459, 1301 Punchbowl Street,
Honolulu, HI 96813.  [Phil Dendel, WRO, 5/18]

93-263 - Acadia (Maine) - Employee Death

Charles W. "Chuck" Wood, 45, the park's chief of resource management, died
on the evening of May 15th after a hard-fought, year-long battle with
cancer.  Chuck leaves his wife, Deborah, and three children - Jacob, 13,
Ethan, 9, and Lydia, 5.  He's also survived by his mother and father and two
sisters.  Chuck spent almost ten years at Glen Canyon, where he served as a
biologist and, later, as chief of natural resources.  He also worked as a
biologist in Rocky Mountain Regional Office from 1982 to 1983, and at the
Denver Service Center from 1980 to 1982.  Chuck began his NPS career as an
ecologist at DSC in July, 1978.  He was an environmental biologist with the
Department of Energy from 1976 to 1978, and a plant ecologist with the Peace
Corps in Venezuela from 1974 to 1976.  In the latter capacity, he
participated in many field expeditions and identified several previously
unknown species of plants.  Chuck received a BA from the University of
California, Riverside, in 1969, and a masters from Arizona State University
in 1974.  He received special achievement awards from Glen Canyon in 1988
and 1992 and Rocky Mountain Region's resource management award in 1990. 
During his tenure at Glen Canyon, Chuck also served as an EMT with the Page
fire department, a member and later chairman of the board of the Lake Powell
Medical Center, and a member of the Wahweap fire and rescue brigade.  The
park adds the following:  "Chuck was a consummate resource manager and
environmentalist.  His contributions to the preservation of park resources
span the length and breadth of the National Park system.  He positively
impacted the Service's resource protection efforts in many important ways
and was highly respected as a professional by all."  Deborah and the
children can be reached at PO Box 224, Mount Desert, ME 04660.  Donations in
his memory can be made to the Hospice of Hancock County, 29 Union Street,
Ellsworth, ME 04605.  [Boyd McFarland, ACAD, 5/18]

93-264 - Delaware Water Gap (Pennsylvania/New Jersey) - Felony Arrest

On the morning of May 16th, ranger Deborah Forbes stopped M.P.,
27, and a male companion while they were hitchhiking along
Route 209 in the Pennsylvania District.  While Forbes ran checks on the
pair, M.P. asked permission to relieve himself in the woods adjacent
to the roadway.  The computer check revealed that the New Jersey state
police in Sussex County wanted M.P. for terroristic threats,
aggravated assault with a motor vehicle, and unlawfully taking a motor
vehicle.  The warrant for him stated that he would resist arrest and attempt
to flee if possible.  Other rangers and Milford police officers responded
quickly to the scene and apprehended M.P. about 15 minutes later as
he was attempting to scale a nearby cliff.  M.P. said he would have
gotten away if it hadn't been for the quick responses of rangers and
officers.  He was turned over to the Pennsylvania state police for
extradition to New Jersey.  [CRO, DEWA, 5/18]

93-265 - Kings Mountain (South Carolina) - Assist; Homicide

Cleveland County officers asked for NPS assistance on the afternoon of May
14th in determining the location of a homicide victim found in dense woods
in the vicinity of the park near the North Carolina/South Carolina state
line.  The victim, L.B., 23, of Gastonia, North Carolina, had been
the object of a week-long search after having been reported last seen in the
area on May 7th.  Superintendent Mike Loveless and chief ranger Jim Anderson
employed a compass azimuth to determine that the body was located 500 feet
north of the state line in Cleveland County and approximately 2,900 feet
outside the park's north boundary.  An investigation continues into the
causes of L.B.'s death.  [KIMO, 5/18]

93-266 - Glen Canyon (Utah/Arizona) - Rescue; Public Health Incident

Early on the morning of May 6th, Calvin Leach, a Bureau of Reclamation
employee, was injured while working on a scaffold on the face of Glen Canyon
Dam.  Leach was inadvertently lifted 30 feet when his safety rope caught on
a crane truck, then fell that distance to the scaffolding.  Six rangers
responded to the scene and began initial EMS treatment.  A Paged fire
department rescue team assisted in lifting Leach to the top of the dam.  He
was taken to a local hospital and treated for a variety of minor injuries. 
During the incident, the park's safety officer discovered that the
sandblasting materials and paint dust that the rescue team had been working
in were considered hazardous.  All six rangers and 14 Page rescue personnel
had to go through decontamination and be checked by a physician.  The
materials involved were Tarset, a coal tar epoxy, and Blackhawk Slag, a
sandblasting material containing lead, zinc and copper.  Several rescuers
had sore throats and itching, and one who was more directly in contact with
the sandblasting materials suffered from a raspy throat, severe headache,
nausea, skin rash, dizziness and loss of appetite.  Most symptoms were gone
in three days, but it was five days before the rash completely cleared. 
There was no posted notice at the accident scene advising of the cancer-
causing agent being used, nor that the area was unsafe.  The only warnings
consisted of a yellow ribbon around the area and a sign warming of an open
manhatch.  [Larry Clark, CR, GLCA, 5/16]

FIRE ACTIVITY

1) FIRE SITUATION - Preparedness Level I

2) FIRE SUMMARY

State  Agency     Area            Fire              5/18     5/19    Status

 AK    State   Delta Area        312080            1,300    1,301    CN 5/18

 CA    BLM     Cal Desert      * Wild                  -      100    CL

 MT    USFS    Lolo            * Little Bear           -      123    CN 5/18

 TX    State   Culbertson Cty  * Six fires             -    4,000+   NEC
               Hudspeth Cty    * One fire              -    4,000    NEC
               Pecos Cty       * Five fires            -    3,000    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 - 243 fires for 3,670 acres in the past 24 hours.

5) ANALYSIS - Initial attack activity is being reported in the Southwest,
South and East.
   
6) PROGNOSIS - The potential for increased initial attack activity exists. 
No resource shortages are expected.

[NIFCC Intelligence Section, 0530, 5/19]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Gulf Islands (Mississippi) - Oil Spill Impact Assessment

A team of researchers has been assembled to conduct an initial impact
assessment following the 6,000-gallon oil spill which occurred following a
barge accident in Mississippi Sound on May 3rd (93-231).  The Gulf Coast
Research Laboratory (Mississippi) and the Dauphin Island Sea Lab (Alabama)
have pledged their full support and expert personnel to the effort.  Dr.
Bill Walker, director of research at Gulf Coast Research Lab, is serving as
team leader.  The team developed a sampling design and will begin a field
survey today.  The first step will involve collection of samples in the
submerged seagrass beds along the park's Mississippi islands to determine
the extent of oil dispersal.  The rapid assessment will be repeated
periodically to detect newly-impacted areas and identify long-term
monitoring needs.  The team will design and implement the necessary
monitoring programs and begin recovery assessments.  Initial emphasis will
be directed towards submerged seagrasses, marine sediments and benthic
invertebrates.  The initial assessment is expected to take from three to
five days.  Meanwhile, quantitative data on benthic invertebrates will
continue to be collected as part of an on-going oil spill risk/impact study
which was begun in late 1992.  [Riley Hoggard, RMS, GUIS]

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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