NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Wednesday, March 2, 1994

Broadcast: By 0900 ET

INCIDENTS

94-94 - Padre Island (Texas) - Accidental Shooting

At 8:40 a.m. on February 23rd, lance corporal D.D., one of the
members of a surveillance team participating in a joint drug interdiction
operation in the park, was struck by a ricochet bullet while at an
observation post along Mansfield Channel.  He was not injured.  Visibility
was limited to under 50 yards at the time due to dense fog.  No firearm
report was heard, but a ricochet was heard just before D.D. was struck. 
The bullet entered the left upper arm of his field jacket, passed through
it, his BDU and his long underwear, grazed his left outer tricep, then
passed back through all layers of clothing and exited.  The bullet was not
found but is believed to have been of a small caliber and jacketed.  All
indications are that D.D. was not the intended target.  The land on the
south side of the channel belongs to the state of Texas.  [Tony Bonanno,
RCR, RAD/SWRO, 3/1]

94-95 - Natchez Trace (Mississippi/Alabama/Tennessee) - MVA with Fatality

A two-car motor vehicle accident occurred at mile post 300 on the parkway at
7:30 a.m. on February 25th.  T.C., 41, of Tupelo, Mississippi, was
driving north on the parkway when his vehicle struck a southbound vehicle
being driven by M.Y., 74, of Iuka, Mississippi.  Both were taken to
Iuka Hospital.  T.C. was pronounced dead on arrival; M.Y. was admitted
for observation.  The accident is still under investigation.  [Gordon
Wissinger, CR, NATR, 3/1]

94-96 - Death Valley (California) - EMS Incident; Life Saved

On January 13th, rangers responded to a call of a man having a heart attack
in the Furnace Creek campground.  When they arrived, the found T.B.,
71, unconscious, unresponsive and gasping for breath; within
seconds, he stopped breathing and arrested.  CPR and advanced cardiac life
support procedures were begun, including defibrillation, endotracheal
intubation, and administration of ACLS drugs and an IV.  T.B. heartbeat
was restored after ten minutes, but he was still unconscious and not
breathing on his own.  He was taken by NPS ambulance to the Furnace Creek
airport to meet an aircraft from a Las Vegas air medical service.  During
the hour-long wait, T.B. again went into full arrest, and rangers again
restored his pulse.  He was flown to a hospital in Las Vegas and was
discharged in good condition a week later.  An interesting side note is that
there were no paramedics on call at the time.  All advanced cardiac life
support measures were performed by parkmedics and parkmedic-cardiacs who had
been through NPS-sponsored training.  [Chris Ward, CR, DEVA, 2/28]

94-97 - Johnstown Flood (Pennsylvania) - Suicide

Visitors reported finding a body in an automobile parked at the South
Abutment parking lot at 10:45 a.m. on February 28th.  Rangers investigated
the death, which the county coroner ruled as a suicide.  The victim,
identified as S.G., age unknown, of Johnstown, shot himself with a
shotgun.  No suicide note was found.  [JOFL, 3/1]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No field reports today.

OPERATIONAL NOTES

1) Status of 6(c) Cases - We have been advised by the acting director of
personnel for the Department that OPM has given the authority to decide law
enforcement and firefighter retirement cases to the Department by interim
regulations issued in the Federal Register on December 7, 1993.  OPM has
returned 236 cases to DOI for final decisions.  Each of these individuals
was notified of this fact by OPM.  It's expected that all of those periods
of service previously recommended for approval by the NPS and DOI will be
approved.  DOI also has 221 cases which are presently in the review process
and an additional 167 cases awaiting review.  They also expect additional
cases from the bureaus.  DOI adds the following: "We are very concerned
about each individual case and will assure that each one will be reviewed
fairly and objectively.  Because of the number of cases to review and the
volume of documentation for each case, the review process (will be)
lengthy."

MEMORANDA

No memoranda.

Prepared by WASO Division of Ranger Activities

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