RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                           MORNING REPORT

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

Day/Date:  Friday, September 10, 1993

Broadcast: By 0900 EDT

INCIDENTS

93-687 - Grand Canyon (Arizona) - Falling Fatality

On September 8th, J.M., 51, a local indigent, apparently climbed
over the safety railing at Mather Point, made his way to the edge, fell 60
feet to a ledge, rolled, then fell an additional 300 feet to his death. 
Visitors reported seeing J.M. drinking alcoholic beverages in the area
just prior to the incident.  His body was recovered by rangers and evacuated
by helicopter.  Coconino County deputies are investigating the incident. 
[Kimberly Spaulding, GRCA, 9/9]

93-688 - Lake Mead (Nevada) - Sexual Assault Conviction Upheld

L.W.S. was arrested on two counts of sexual assault while
employed as a ranger at Lake Mead in 1991.  L.W.S. was terminated from
employment with the NPS and found guilty of one count of open or gross
lewdness (a gross misdemeanor in Nevada) on November 12, 1991.  L.W.S.
subsequently appealed his conviction to the state's supreme court.  On May
28th, the appeal was dismissed in a unanimous decision by that court.  [Mike
Blandford, LAME, 9/9]

93-689 - Stones River (Tennessee) - Sexual Assault

While on routine patrol around 9:40 p.m. yesterday evening, a Rutherford
County deputy came upon a sexual assault in progress at the site of General
Rosecrans' headquarters.  M.A., 23, was arrested and charged with
aggravated rape.  His victim, who was taken to a local hospital, told
officers that M.A. had held a knife to her throat during the assault.  The
FBI has been notified.  [Betty Cook, STRI, 9/10]

93-690 - Yosemite (California) - Drowning

On the evening of September 5th, rangers received a report of a drowning in
the Chilnualna Creek drainage.  Two rangers were flown to the area by
helicopter and began a foot search for the victim, who was located around
9:30 p.m.  The victim had apparently fallen 20 feet from a cliff while
climbing on a rock outcropping, sustained major head trauma in the fall,
then drowned when he slipped below the surface of the creek.  Due to
darkness and the remoteness of the area, the body was secured at the scene
and evacuated by helicopter the following morning.  The victim was
identified by members of his party as a juvenile from Arvada, Colorado. 
[Greg Jablonski, YOSE, 9/9]

93-691 - Effigy Mounds (Iowa) - Ginseng Poaching

On September 7th, a person was arrested for illegally collecting a half
pound of ginseng in the park's south unit.  A concealed .22 caliber pistol
which was found on the person.  The ginseng was confiscated.  [EFMO, 9/8]

93-692 - Piscataway (Maryland) - Archeological Resource Incident

A Park Police officer recently discovered an unauthorized dig in the wooded
area at Marshall Hall and staked out the area in an attempt to capture the
person who was conducting the excavation.  On the afternoon of September
4th, he apprehended G.B., 68, of Accokeek, Maryland, and charged
him with illegal excavation and theft of artifacts from the park.  The moped
that B.s had used to reach the secluded spot was impounded.  A court
appearance is pending.  [Lt. John Harasek, USPP, 9/7]

93-693 - Great Smokies (North Carolina/Tennessee) - EMS Incident: Life Saved

M.K. of Nashville was hiking on the Little Bottoms trail when
he went into anaphylactic shock from numerous bee stings.  Two Adopt-A-Trail
patrollers helped him reach the Abrams Creek ranger station.  Ranger Al
Voner administered epinephrine to M.K., who by that time had hives
over his entire body and was in severe respiratory distress.  The
epinephrine relieved his life-threatening respiratory problem.  A local
ambulance company responded, gave M.K. another shot, and took him to
a local hospital.  [Don Utterback, ACR, GRSM, 9/9]

93-694 - Great Smokies (North Carolina/Tennessee) - Marijuana Eradication

Between Saturday, August 28th, and Monday, September 6th, rangers seized
1,781 marijuana plants from 19 locations in the North District on the
Tennessee side of the park.  Several of these sites had been under 24-hour
surveillance until September 6th.  Rangers were assisted by Tennessee Army
National Guard ground troops and Air Guard helicopters.  All plants seized
were healthy and up to ten feet tall; a significant number were sinsemilla. 
Search and arrest warrants will be pursued with the U.S. attorney in
Knoxville.  [Don Utterback, ACR, GRSM, 9/9]

93-695 - Martin Luther King (Georgia) - Structural Fire; Fatality

At 3 a.m. yesterday morning, Atlanta fire department units were dispatched
to a fire in an abandoned warehouse on property within the park's boundaries
which the Service is in the process of acquiring.  The body of a 46-year-old
man was discovered in the burned building; about a dozen other persons
escaped without injury.  The building is frequently occupied by day laborers
and vagrants.  The cause of the fire is undetermined and is under
investigation.  [Johnny Sims, MALU, 9/9]

FIRE ACTIVITY

1) FIRE SITUATION - Preparedness Level I

2) FIRE SUMMARY

State  Agency     Area            Fire               9/9      9/10   Status

 CA    CDF     San Diego         Clevenger           600       409   CND   

 NV    BLM     Ely               Blue                200       200   CND   

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
  CND - Contained              CN (date) - Expected date of containment

3) ANALYSIS - Some initial attack activity was reported yesterday in
California, Arizona, the Northwest, the Great Basin, Texas and northern
Florida, but none of it was significant.

4) PROGNOSIS - Red flag warnings have been posted for warm temperatures and
low humidity in the higher elevations of the western Cascades, and for low
humidity and drying fuels in the northern Sacramento Valley.  This warm
weather will create conditions more conducive to increased fire activity;
the air mass over the Northwest will remain stable, however, so
thunderstorms will not play a significant part in new fire starts.  The
remainder of the West will be mostly sunny, with no significant increase in
fire activity.  There will be scattered showers and thunderstorms in the
South; activity there will remain moderate.

[NIFCC Intelligence Section, 9/10]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No field reports today.

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: Hurd at DOI strategic planning meeting (9/7-
9/10); Spruill at aviation accident review board meeting (9/7-9/9); Gale at
MAC group cadre meeting (9/7-9/10).


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