- Subject: NPS Morning Report - Friday, August 12, 1994
- Date: Fri, 12 Aug 1994
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
MORNING REPORT
To: All National Park Service Areas and Offices
From: Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office
Day/Date: Friday, August 12, 1994
Broadcast: By 0930 ET
INCIDENTS
94-455 - Canyon de Chelly (Arizona) - Follow-up on Assault on Ranger
Further details have been received regarding the assault on ranger William
Yazzie that occurred on Wednesday afternoon. While attempting to arrest and
handcuff one of the two intoxicated men who were harassing park visitors at
Ledge Ruins overlook, Yazzie was hit with a rock by a third person, then
attacked and overpowered by all three subjects. He attempted to use his
sidearm, and two shots were fired during the struggle. Yazzie was able to
release the weapon's magazine before he lost it. A witness, one of the
local jewelry vendors, alertly picked the weapon up from the ground and ran
from the area; she later turned it over to police. Yazzie was taken to the
medical center in Chinle, where he was treated for a broken nose, concussion
and lacerations on both ears and scalp, then flown yesterday afternoon to a
hospital in Flagstaff for further assessment. A CISD debriefer and regional
SET team have been sent to the park; regional director John Cook and
regional law enforcement specialist Sal Lauro flew to the park yesterday
morning. Yazzie has been with the NPS since 1988, when he began working at
Bandelier. He has been at Canyon de Chelly since late 1992. [Dale Thompson,
AS, CACH; Tanna Chattin, PIO, SWRO, 8/11]
94-457 - Glen Canyon (Utah/Arizona) - Two Successful SARs
Late on the afternoon of August 9th, rangers at Bullfrog received a marine
band radio call reporting an overdue solo party in the area of Waterpocket
Fold. One hundred degree temperatures and a recent heat-related fatality in
the same area reinforced the need for a rapid response, and a shoreline
search near the party's camp was begun by maintenance personnel and
protection and interpretive rangers from Bullfrog and Halls Crossing. The
park aircraft was also brought in and soon spotted 15-year-old D.D.
in a drainage below one pour-off and above another in very rough terrain
three-quarters of the way up the Fold. A Classic Lifeguard helicopter
ferried NPS climbers to the site, where the rescue was completed just before
dark and ahead of approaching storms. Meanwhile, during the technical
portion of D.D.'s rescue, a second search was initiated in the Halls
Crossing buoy field for 18-year-old B.L., who disappeared after
diving from a moored houseboat into three-foot waves in an attempt to
recover his party's drifting ski boat. Boat searchers were hampered by
darkness and bad weather, but eventually located B.L., who was in good
condition on a downwind shore. Prior to jumping into the rough water, B.L.
had donned a life jacker, which undoubtedly contributed to his survival.
[Tomie Lee, CR, GLCA, 8/11]
FIRE ACTIVITY
1) PREPAREDNESS LEVEL - V
2) LARGE FIRE SUMMARY
State Agency Area Fire 8/11 8/12 Status
WA USFS Wenatchee NF Tyee Comp. - T1 121,850 121,900 CN 8/16
Hatchery
Comp. - T1 32,947 41,273 CN 8/15
Okanogan NF Okanogan Comp. -
T1 and two T2 16,045 16,045 NEC
Colville NF Copper Butte - T1 10,650 10,650 CND
OR USFS Wall.-Whit. NF Snake River
Comp. - T2 5,000 7,945 CN 8/14
* Boundary - T2 - 400+ NEC
Malheur NF Indian Rocks 1,420 1,420 CN 8/12
Okanogan NF Methow Comp. - T2 4,200 4,200 CN 8/12
MT State - Chamberlin - T2 1,323 1,380 CN 8/11
USFS Bitterroot NF Trail - T2 360 360 CN 8/12
Border 130 153 CN 8/12
Bitter-Nez - T2 180 320 CN 8/14
FWS CM Russell NWR CK Creek 11,500 12,200 CND
BIA Crow Ag. * Summer Creek - T2 - 1,200 NEC
UT USFS Fishlake NF Black Willow 12,000 12,031 CND
ID USFS Boise NF Idaho City
Comp. - T1 14,360 15,290 CN 8/28
Thunderbolt - T2 600 640 CN 8/14
Payette NF Blackwell Comp. -
T1 19,000 19,000 NEC
Corral Creek - T2 30,000 30,000 NEC
Clearwater NF Sam Group - T2 390 430 CN 8/14
Idaho Pan. NF St Joe Fires - T2 485 540 NEC
Salmon NF Powerline 500 967 NEC
BLM Boise Dis. * Deer Creek - 569 CN 8/12
WY NPS Yellowstone NP Tern 472 472 NEC
CA NPS Yosemite NP Horizon 1,700 1,700 CN 8/15
USFS Klamath NF Dillon Comp. - T2 17,962 17,962 CN 8/15
Tahoe NF * Hirschdale - T1 - 1,400 NEC
State - Creek 2,000 1,500 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 NEC - No estimate of containment
CND - Contained CN/CS (date) - Expected date of containment
3) FIRES YESTERDAY -
NPS BIA BLM FWS States USFS Total
Number 3 7 9 0 66 109 194
Acres Burned 1 14 112 0 2,545 677 3,349
4) COMMITTED RESOURCES -
Crews Engines Helicopters Airtankers Overhead
Federal 573 248 101 18 2,750
Non-federal 141 316 25 11 1,615
5) COMPARATIVE SUMMARY -
CY 1994 Five Year Average
Year-to-Date Year-to-Date
Number of Fires 53,186 49,918
Acres Burned 2,381,331 1,879,944
6) OVERALL SITUATION - Initial attack activity increased yesterday
throughout most of the West. Large fires burned actively and a Type I team
was called out on the new Hirschdale fire in northern California.
7) NPS SITUATION - Guadalupe Mountains, Lava Beds and Sequoia/Kings Canyon
are reporting extreme fire danger. Grand Teton, Rocky Mountain, Cumberland
Island, Death Valley, Pinnacles, Whiskeytown and Yosemite all have very high
fire dangers. Status of park fires is as follows:
* Grand Canyon - The four-acre Honan fire would normally be a prescribed
natural fire, but has been declared a wildfire and is being suppressed
because the nation is at Preparedness Level V.
* Yosemite - The Horizon fire has burned about 1700 acres. A DOI crew was
expected to arrive on the fire yesterday.
* Glacier - The perimeter of the Howling fire, a prescribed natural fire,
encompasses an area of about 13 acres, with about 40 percent of that area
still showing as green and unburned. There has been minimal growth; what
has occurred has been primarily by smoldering litter and duff and occasional
flare-ups.
8) OUTLOOK - A red flag watch has been posted for dry lightning over
Washington's southern and central Cascades. Initial attack and large fire
activity is expected to continue, but demobilization will likely accelerate
as containment targets are met on more fires.
[NIFCC Incident Management Situation Report, 8/12; Jeanie Harris, NPS fire
situation coordinator, Branch of Fire and Aviation Management, 8/12]
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
No field reports today.
OPERATIONAL NOTES
No notes.
MEMORANDA
No memoranda.
Prepared by the Division of Ranger Activities, WASO, with the cooperation
and support of Delaware Water Gap NRA.
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