NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Wednesday, June 22, 1994

Broadcast: By 0930 ET

INCIDENTS

94-304 - Sequoia/Kings Canyon (California) - Follow-up on Search

R.O., who had been missing in the park since Sunday, June 12th,
and was the subject of an intensive search last week, walked into the
Buckeye Flat campground around 9 a.m. on the morning of Saturday, June 18th. 
Except for some bread and raisins which he'd brought along for his lunch
when he headed out on a day hike on the 12th, R.O. had been without food
during the entire period.  He had become lost when he took an old, unused
trail, which eventually petered out and left him in heavy brush and steep
terrain.  R.O. was in good physical condition.  He was reunited with
fellow workers, who had flown out from Edwards Air Force Base for a
helicopter overflight of the search area.  [Pete Allen, SEKI, 6/18]

94-323 - Whiskeytown (California) - Fatal Bike Accident

Sometime between midnight and noon on June 21st, 57-year-old D.T. of
Redding, California, apparently lost control of his mountain bike while on a
sharp turn on the Muletown Road and fell into the opposite bank.  D.T.
either had a heart attack as he was going into the turn or broke his neck
when he fell.  He was not wearing a helmet at the time of the incident. 
D.T.'s body has been turned over to the county coroner.  State police
officers are conducting the investigation.  [Larry Carr, WHIS, 6/21]

94-324 - Yellowstone (Wyoming) - Concession Employee Injured by Bear

TW Recreational Services employee R.I., 37, of Gardiner, Montana,
was hiking alone off-trail near Chaw Pass while off-duty on the afternoon of
June 20th when he came over a knoll and surprised an adult female grizzly
bear with her two yearling cubs.  R.I. was listening to a walkman with
headphones at the time of the encounter.  The bears were about 20 feet away
at the time.  They started to leave, but the sow turned and charged when
R.I. ran for a tree.  She pulled him from the tree and mauled him as he
screamed and yelled, but quit the assault and left the area with the
yearlings when he played dead.  R.I. suffered a fracture of the left
shoulder, a laceration of his forehead, and multiple puncture wounds.  He
walked out to the trailhead, where he was picked up by visitors and taken to
the Lamar ranger station.  Rangers provided emergency medical treatment,
then transported him to Lake Hospital.  He was later taken to Deaconess
Hospital in Bozeman, Montana, for further treatment.  The trail is closed
pending monitoring of the area for bear activity.  No other management
action is planned at this time.  [Mike Murray, ACR, YELL, 6/21]

94-325 - Buffalo (Missouri) - Assault

On the evening of June 19th, Upper District rangers responded to a complaint
of drunk and unruly persons in Ozark campground.  When they arrived they
learned that a member of a group playing volleyball there had been seriously
assaulted.  That person had been confronted by a man named S.H., and
the two had had an argument over a mutual female acquaintance.  S.H. had
picked up a piece of firewood, hit the victim six to eight times, then fled
the area at a high rate of speed.  The victim was treated and a search for
S.H. was begun.  S.H. later turned himself in at the Boone County
sheriff's office and was taken to the Newton County jail and charged with
felony assaults.  Three other drunk and disorderly arrests were also made in
that campground over the weekend.  [Carl Hinrichs, BUFF, 6/21]

94-326 - Big South Fork (Tennessee/Kentucky) - Drownings

On June 14th, cousins B.H., eight, and S.H., seven, were
playing in the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River while their mothers
were sunbathing on the shore.  The children eventually got too far out into
the river and were swept into deep water by a strong current.  Both mothers
responded to their children's screams for help.  B.H. disappeared
beneath the surface before her mother could reach her, but was quickly
located and brought to shore.  Although she was unconscious and had stopped
breathing, her mother immediately began CPR and she began breathing within
minutes.  She later regained consciousness.  When D.H., 32, reached
her son, S.H., he was having difficulty staying on the surface, and
grabbed his mother in panic.  D.H. was unable to escape his grasp; they
were last seen disappearing beneath the surface with S.H. clinging to his
mother's neck.  Rangers were notified and began a search for the pair in
conjunction with other local agencies.  Divers located both bodies about 90
minutes after the accident occurred.  [CRO, BISO, 6/21]

FIRE ACTIVITY

1) PREPAREDNESS LEVEL - II

The national preparedness level dropped from Level III to Level II this
morning.

2) LARGE FIRE SUMMARY

State  Agency     Area            Fire                6/21    6/22   Status

 CA    Several Kern County     * White Blanket           -  2,500    NEC

 NM    USFS    Gila NF           Pigeon - T1         3,220   3,290   CN 6/26
       BLM     Las Cruces Dis.   Organ               1,900   3,800   CN 6/23

 AK    State   -                 404274 - T2        40,465  41,120   NEC

 UT    BLM     S.L. City Dis.  * Round Top               -  10,000   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 - Containment strategy    NEC - No estimate of containment
  CND - Contained              CN/CS (date) - Expected date of containment

3) FIRE HIGHLIGHTS -

White Blanket, Kern County, Sequoia NF, BLM Bakersfield District - The fire
has burned 2,500 acres and may reach 10,000 if it burns into the Dome Land
wilderness.

4) FIRES YESTERDAY (BY AGENCY) -

                NPS     BIA      BLM     FWS    States     USFS      Total

Number            1      21       10       0        34       39        105
Acres Burned      6     679    3,962       0     4,327      931      9,905

5) COMMITTED RESOURCES -

               Crews     Engines     Helicopters     Airtankers     Overhead

Federal           77        32           51              10           264
Non-federal       10         1            0               0            17

6) CURRENT SITUATION - Cold and wet weather persists in Alaska, with
demobilization taking place on most fires.  There was an increase in
activity in the Great Basin and northern Rockies yesterday due to lightning. 
Several areas in Nevada are reporting extreme indices.  Demobilization is
continuing on large fires in the Southwest; favorable weather and available
initial attack resources have kept new starts to minimal acreages.

7) OUTLOOK - Most of the Southwest and southern California will have high
temperatures with scattered thunderstorms; the potential for increased fire
activity therefore exists throughout the area.  Alaska will continue to be
partly cloudy with showers; highs will be in the 50s.

[NIFCC Incident Management Situation Report, 6/22]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No field reports today.

OPERATIONAL NOTES

1) Albright-Wirth Fund Applications - SECOND NOTICE: Information pamphlets
and applications for the FY 95 Albright - Wirth Employee Development Fund
endowment are now available from all NPS training offices.  The closing date
for applications is Friday, June 24th.

MEMORANDA

No memoranda.

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