NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Wednesday, June 7, 1995

Broadcast: By 1000 ET

INCIDENTS

95-265 - Cumberland Island (Georgia) - Follow-up on Hurricane Allison

Although Hurricane Allison dumped nine and a half inches of rain on the island,
damage was light.  Two culverts on the main road north of Plum Orchard were
washed out, and another just south of that location was damaged; the road,
however, remains passable.  It's expected that it will take at least three days
to repair the damage.  A tornado which touched down in St. Marys demolished two
portable classrooms at a school two blocks from park headquarters, but the main
office was spared any damage.  [Chief of Operations, CUIS, 6/6]

95-270 - Yosemite (California) - Attempted Assault on Ranger; DUI

On May 30th, park dispatch received a report of a woman operating a vehicle
while under the influence.  Ranger Katherine Korte, who was on bicycle patrol
at the time, spotted the vehicle in Curry Village and directed the driver to
stop.  The woman instead drove straight at Korte at about 40 miles per hour. 
Korte took evasive action, and the vehicle passed within six to twelve inches
of her bike.  The car then headed on toward Mirror Lake, an area closed to
motor vehicles but full of pedestrian and bicycle traffic, but was stopped
before reaching that location.  The 24-year-old driver, a park concession
employee, was taken into custody and charged with assault on a federal officer,
DUI, refusal to submit to a chemical test, resisting arrest, and failure to
yield to an emergency vehicle.  [CRO, YOSE, 6/6]

95-271 - Yosemite (California) - Disorderly Arrest; Civil Disturbance

On May 17th, rangers Chris Pergiel and Keith Lober contacted a man in the
concession housing area regarding an alcohol violation.  While attempting to
identify the man, he began to display violent behavior towards the rangers,
refused to comply with any of their requests, and fought efforts to take him
into custody.  A disorderly crowd of about 30 people followed the two rangers
and their prisoner as they walked to the patrol vehicle.  Several members of
the group threatened to incite a riot and to take the prisoner away from the
rangers, but a third ranger was able to keep the crowd away until the prisoner
was placed in the vehicle.  One person was arrested for interfering with the
arrest.  The third ranger was followed by the crowd as he walked to his car and
was intermittently heckled and threatened.  Off-duty units were called to the
scene to assist him and disperse the crowd.  About ten people were identified
as having either interfered with the arrests or incited the crowd, but could
not be taken into custody due to the initial lack of available resources.  Two
of the involved rangers returned to the concession housing area two nights
later and spoke to a group of about 45 people, most of whom had been present at
the incident.  The majority were receptive to the follow-up contact.  Since
that time, rangers have reported no unusual difficulties or interference during
patrols and contacts in the area.  [CRO, YOSE, 6/6]

95-272 - Home of FDR (New York) - Structural Fire

Contractors working on roof repairs on Roosevelt's home early on the afternoon
of June 5th spotted smoke issuing from the building's eaves in the area under
repair.  The fire department was immediately notified, but contractor employees
were able to utilize portable fire extinguishers located on site to put out the
fire before the department arrived.  Investigation revealed that the fire was
caused by open flame soldering of roof flashing.  Damage was limited to the
area under repair.  The building was not open at the time of the incident. 
[Hank Brightman, CR, ROVA, 6/6]

95-273 - New River Gorge (West Virginia) - Rescue

Around 2:30 a.m. on May 29th, M.D., 19, fell about 100 feet from a
cliff at the base of the New River Gorge bridge and suffered severe skull
fractures, internal injuries, an open chest wound, and fractures of the
extremities.  Responding rangers treated M.D. at the scene, then coordinated a
mile-and-a-half overland evacuation down the gorge wall to a road.  M.D. was
taken to a hospital in Charleston, where he was last reported to be in critical
condition.  According to friends, M.D. was with a group that came to the
location to climb onto the catwalk under the bridge, a frequent challenge to
local teenagers and young adults.  M.D. was in front of the group at the time
of the fall.  Alcohol is believed to have been a factor.  [Rick Brown, Acting
CR, NERI, 6/2]

95-274 - Delaware Water Gap (New Jersey/Pennsylvania) - Drownings

On the afternoon of June 6th, three men from Queens, New York, waded across the
Delaware River from the New Jersey shoreline to Depew Island.  As they started
to swim back, one man began to struggle.  Another member of the party attempted
to help the struggling man by grabbing his arm, but had to let go as the water
began pulling him under.  He then looked for the third member of the party, but
could not find him.  A fisherman on the Pennsylvania side who witnessed the
trio struggling in the water summoned help, and rangers and local rescue squads
responded.  The bodies of the two missing men, both in their early 20s, were
found a short time later.  The river current was a bit above average at the
time of the incident.  An investigation into the cause of the drownings is
underway.  [Doyle Nelson, CR, DEWA, 6/7]

95-275 - Delaware Water Gap (New Jersey/Pennsylvania) - Search

A six-day-long search for J.S., 76, who was last seen fishing along
Little Bushkill Creek just outside the park, has been suspended.  More than 200
volunteers, dog teams, divers and CAP and state police aircraft were involved
in the search, which was conducted in and around the park.  No trace of J.S.
has yet been found.  An investigation into his disappearance will continue. 
[Doyle Nelson, CR, DEWA, 6/7]

FIRE ACTIVITY

1) NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS LEVEL - Level I

2) LARGE FIRE SUMMARY
                                                                    %    Est
State    Area              Fire             IMT      6/6     6/7   Con   Con  

 MT    Lolo NF         Sheep                 --      190     190   100   CND 
     
HEADING NOTES:

Fire     * = newly reported fire (on this report).  Cx = complex.
IMT     T1 = Type 1; T2 = Type II; ST1 = state Type 1; ST2 = state Type 2.
% Con   Percent of fire contained.
Est Con Estimated containment date.  NEC = no estimated date of
        containment; CND = fully contained; NR = no report.

3) FIRES YESTERDAY -

                NPS     BIA      BLM     FWS    States     USFS      Total

Number            0       5        1       0        33        6         45
Acres Burned      0       9        1       0       706       55        771

4) COMMITTED RESOURCES -

               Crews     Engines     Helicopters     Airtankers     Overhead

Federal            2        22            1               0             19
Non-federal        1         9            0               0              0

5) COMPARATIVE SUMMARY -
                                      CY 1995            Five Year Average
                                    Year-to-Date           Year-to-Date

Number of Fires                        39,445                  32,318     
Acres Burned                          568,658                 482,293

6) SITUATION - Initial attack activity continues in the Southwest.  Significant
progress was reported on fires in Saskatchewan and Manitoba; overall, just
under 140,000 acres burned in Canada yesterday.

7) OUTLOOK - A red flag warning has been posted for strong gusty winds, low
humidity and low fuel moisture in Arizona.  A fire weather watch has been
posted for strong winds in New Mexico.  The potential for fire activity in
those states has accordingly increased.  Fire activity should moderate in
Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario, but continue at current levels in Alberta
and the Northwest Territory.

[NIFCC Incident Management Situation Report, 6/7]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No field reports today.

OPERATIONAL NOTES

1) Yount Award - Jim Hannah of Wrangell-St. Elias was presented the 1995
Servicewide Harry Yount award by President Clinton at a ceremony at the White
House last week.  The annual award recognizes excellence in the art and science
of rangering.  Hannah, 52, who holds a bachelor's degree in biology from the
University of Louisville and a master's degree in education from Butler
University, began his career as a seasonal ranger at Dinosaur in 1969.  After
serving at Grand Canyon, where he became a permanent in 1972, he worked at
Bryce Canyon and Big Bend, then moved to Alaska in 1980.  Hannah was cited for
his abilities in resource management, law enforcement, aviation, emergency
services, and education of both visitors and rangers.

MEMORANDA

No memoranda.

OBSERVATIONS

"Americans have a national treasure in the Yellowstone Park, and they should
guard it jealously.  Nature has made her wildest patterns here, has brought the
boiling waters from her greatest depths to the peaks which bear eternal snow,
and set her masterpiece with pools like jewels.  Let us respect her moods, and
let the beasts she nurtures in her bosom live, and when the man from Oshkosh
writes his name with a blue pencil on her sacred face, let him spend six months
where the scenery is circumscribed and entirely artificial."

                                          Frederick Remington, from
                                          "Pony Tracks", 1898

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