NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
MORNING REPORT
To: All National Park Service Areas and Offices
From: Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office
Day/Date: Thursday, February 16, 1995
Broadcast: By 1000 ET
INCIDENTS
95-65 - Hawaii Volcanoes (Hawaii) - Aircraft Crash
On the afternoon of February 13th, a Hughes 500 helicopter involved in
blackline fire operations in the park lost power and autorotated 600 feet to
the ground along the coast near Paliuli. The pilot walked away from the crash
and was uninjured. The helicopter was not damaged. The Hughes was one of
three contract helicopters making water-bucket drops on a fire started by a
finger of lava from Pu'u'O'o. L. had just emptied the bucket when his
engine failed. OAS and FAA have been advised. [HAVO, 2/15]
95-66 - Yosemite (California) - Hypothermia; Life Saved
Around 4:30 a.m. on New Year's Day morning, rangers Tom Wilson and Cameron
Sholly found an unconscious and unresponsive man face down in the snow near one
of the concession employee dorms. The man, who had a very strong odor of an
alcoholic beverage about him, could not be awakened, and was taken by ambulance
to the park's clinic. He was found to have a core body temperature of 90
degrees and a blood alcohol level of .35 percent. He was rewarmed and
eventually regained consciousness. After release from the clinic, he was
placed under arrest for public intoxication and booked into the Yosemite jail.
This was his fourth arrest for public intoxication in the park. [Brian Smith,
YOSE, 2/14]
95-67 - Yosemite (California) - Bomb
While conducting a consent search of a vehicle occupied by two juveniles,
R.H. and J.F., ranger Mary Litell recovered two fully
functional pipe bombs and several items of stolen property. After the two were
arrested and jailed, park investigators contacted the Madera County sheriff's
office and asked officers to go to their residences. A consent search was
conducted at J.F.'s residence, during which officers seized three homemade
bombs, six pounds of explosives, materials for bomb construction, and satanic
cult materials. They also found a marijuana plantation. R.H. has been
charged in the park with various felonies associated with possession of
explosives and stolen property; J.F. has been arrested by the county and
charged with multiple felonies. The explosives device recovered in Yosemite
was disabled by personnel from the state fire marshall's office. An inter-
agency investigation of the pair is underway. [Brian Smith, YOSE, 2/14]
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
No field reports today.
OPERATIONAL NOTES
No notes.
MEMORANDA
No memoranda.
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